M You must have been out. Where were you?
W I got a great deal on it. You’ll see.
M What did the doctor say?
W Pick up something for dinner on your way home.
M Well, if that’s the way you want to be about it.
W Don’t be late again.
M How long should we wait?
W For God’s sake.
M You’d better go lie down.
W It’d be a rest for you.
M Pigeons back on the window ledge.
W Where you going?
M Fifty-four years now.
W How could that be?
M Susie came ‘round today. Thin as string.
W Still with that guy?
M What were we watching last night?
W A mystery.
M You can still get a grin out of me.
W Go on.
M Yeah, I mean it.
W Three or four months.
M He didn’t say that.
W Let me be.
M How long?
W I’m not sayin’ it again.
THO March, 2021
328 West 110th, 11F
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