— your own work I know you’ve had so little time but… waiting breathlessly to hear… only living soul I know with something worth doing…
— Hey holy…
— about the concert grand…? of a charming Chambolle-Musigny you’ll adore… care of yourself…
— Hey look he’s going to get run over if he runs along by us like that holy…
— found this delicious new Czech recording of the Kindertotenlieder…
— Yes goodbye, goodbye…
— to know you’re all we have left au voir au voir…
— No but who was that suppose to be hey.
— Just be quiet for a minute.
— Sure okay but I mean who was…
— Nobody! it, wasn’t supposed to be anybody…
— Okay I mean you don’t need to get mad hey you know what took me so long back there? This here tremendous truck that had us blocked in you know what it was hey what’s the matter your eye still hurts?
— Yes.
— Anyways what it was it was this whole shipment of these here ten thousand gross plastic flowers we got at this dock auction from Hong Kong so cheap because the colors were all screwed up you know?
— No.
— Like all these here red daffodils and blue roses and all see these here Chinamen which made them like they had pictures of the shape and all only they don’t have them real down at China like here so they just made up all these here dumb colors, I mean I heard this dopey truck-driver he’s yelling about all this plastic crap in his truck from Hong Kong I thought it’s these here sweaters we sent over there to make them for Eagle I mean didn’t they even come yet? And I mean it’s both suppose to go up to Union Falls anyways like what’s he doing yelling around that dump about J R Corp this address, this here big delivery at J R Corp this address what’s he…
— You wanted a low-cost operation didn’t you!
— Sure but holy, I mean, I mean holy…
— Sixty-one forty a month what did you expect for sixty-one forty! what do you think I’ve been…
— No but, no but I mean holy, I mean that was it this here whole world headquarters? that, that dump…?
— Well how do you think we…
— No but, no…
— Down Park sir?
— Down Park down anything driver it doesn’t…
— No but wait hey Bast we’re not going back now are we how come you…
— Because it’s the only way I can get a ride home that’s why, because I’ve…
— No but we only…
— Because I’ve got exactly thirty-seven cents that’s why! because I’ve got to get rid of these clothes because I’ve got a cold and a fever and my head’s splitting that’s why! Because I haven’t slept I haven’t eaten since that box give it to me, that white box…
— No but…
— Take the other one eat it go ahead open it eat it it’s your, one of your forty-eight cent tax dollar box lunches your neat guy Davidoff got for this so-called what made you do this anyhow, now today what made you do it!
— It just, it seemed like a good idea…
— Well it wasn’t it wasn’t a good idea, of all the…
— I wanted to see it! I, I just, wanted…
— All right don’t, here get your foot down have you got a handkerchief?
— Sure just, just a second…
— No you, use it. Stop sniffling and use it.
— I just, always, I mean I always thought this is what it will be like you and, and me riding in this here big limousine down, down this, this here big street…
— Well we, we are, here…
— No I, I mean like we…
— I know what you mean here, eat your sandwich.
— But, okay… hey?
— What.
— Right there that big white place, what is it…
— A club an embassy 1 don’t know, why.
— I just always thought we’d, we’d, nothing. You want your pickle?
— No.
— Like I’ll trade it for half my…
— Just take it!
— Okay I mean you don’t have to get mad about it, I just…
— I’m not mad about it about a damn pickle haven’t you heard anything I’ve said? Don’t you know where I’ve been what’s going on out there haven’t you seen the…
— Like that’s what I’m trying to find out only you keep interrupting, I mean this here whole big thing where you’re dressed up in this neat Indian wait a second it’s under here…
— Look that’s yesterday’s paper I mean what just hap…
— No but I mean all this expense we went to and all and this old chief giving you this here pipe he looks like he’s wearing this cheap kid’s Indian suit with these crumby chicken feathers sticking up and like who’s this old fart standing back here looks like a…
— That’s Senator Milliken and those are crumby chicken feathers, when I got up in this fancy dress Davidoff rented for three hundred dollars Charley Yellow Brook’s father showed up for the picture in smelly jeans and that idiot with the appliances said he didn’t look like a real Indian, he sent that stupid kid of his to the dime store and that’s what he brought back size eight that’s what started things off…
— I know it tells about it in this here neat story, echoing to the dip of paddles the hum of arrows and the legendary cry Howee! the dramatic reenactment of history unfolding here today promises to rekindle tribal hopes and loyalties smoldering from bygone times like the coals of some forgotten campf…
— Look this here neat story was written before anything happened like that picture, it was taken before they’d been pushed too far and exploded can’t you understand that? It’s a press release your neat guy Davidoff wrote from the script what he wanted to happen not what really happened, it was handed out the night before to get it in the papers the same day the…
— No but what do you mean exploded like they couldn’t even do it? I mean we have to go spend all this here money learning them how to row these canoes and shoot off these here bow and arrows like they can’t hardly do anything for theirself? Like we’re trying to help them out to like rekindle this here tribal spirit and defend their hunting grounds and all only they’re so dumb they don’t even know their own history so then we have to go pay this here topflight writer to fix them up with one so they can have this here dram…
— He did that all right he rekindled their tribal spirit that’s what I’m telling you, when they read it when they read about the rapes and famines their forefathers forced off their treaty reservation marching a thousand miles barefoot in the middle of winter to the one they’re on now the hum of arrows I wished Davidoff was there to hear them, these stoves and washing machines and the rest of that junk pieces of it spread all over the…
— No but wait hey wait hey wait a second holy, I mean like that inventory was worth like holy shit I mean one washing machine retails at a hundred nine, ninety-sev, they couldn’t of I mean they, they couldn’t of…
— Well they did nobody ever thought of finding out if…
— No but wait a second I mean, I mean just because they get mad about these here forefeathers marching around in the snow in these here bygone times so they go wreck up this whole tremendous gift which we’re trying to help them out like what did we ever do to them! I mean no wait a second like it says down here look, forging this here human betterment wait a second here, cause of human betterment to forge a two edge sword severing past from future at one fell swoop in the un un, unprecedented gift of a full range of modern electrical appliances from the Endo subsider, sidiary of the worldwide J R Cor…
— That’s the point they don’t have electricity! Nobody ev…
— What?
— Electricity they don’t have electricity! these Indians the reservation there’s no electricity nobody ever thought of finding out if…