What's under your packet? May I take a peek?
He runs a juice plant in Tipton now, but Cory
stayed in Little Rock. The Fi after Semper is
slang for Latin, "Fidelis," two words joined for
"always faithful." It means no man or woman
left behind? In '84, Ty's father got blown up,
Marine barracks in Lebanon. That's why his
limb was buried at sea? Full, formal honor guard,
coffin, flag neatly folded, triangular? Just taps.
A dinner afterwards. They asked if he wished
to freeze the leg, to keep and save from hungry
sharks? Big Doug said hell no, what for? Cry
over spilled milk? I hope they choke. Brave
Ahab! Cat's food or mascara at month's end,
before my paycheck's due and instant lunches
already drunk? the lovely woman wondered.
Prone to attorneys sure to rise, on her new cell
she ran the light, in a flash slammed—just like
that—full speed a Rainbo Bread truck trying to
brake in time. No dice. Presto! here one second,
the next gone, quick set of angel's wings, halo
and harp. My goodness gracious her great-aunt
sighed, confused, sure Madeleine would be
engaged, not like the other girls. "The ugliest
man in the world is you," an ex-friend's mad
friend declared, a moment of lucidity. "You've
lived too long in Santa Cruz." Is the mop up
there? Garage? I'll drop it down. The married
radio self-help hosts found that way. The condo
near Grenada Hills? Does it look better like
this? Or this? You cut your hair. Judge said
you'll enlist or spend a year on Rikers Island.
Kay got hers well-frosted at the House of Wax?
"I'm no swordsman," Nixon confided to a friend