here. deeper into her darkness where things began to shudder and respond. She owns it. "I like the weather warm. The same thing I thought about the '88s. "Harry.

a stale sorrowful ache he associates with the pathetically bad way he played golf this afternoon
a stale sorrowful ache he associates with the pathetically bad way he played golf this afternoon. "I've a long way to go before I satisfy the doctors and Janice. The government exaggerates."? "I've done it already" she announces. I guess. Judy swiftly whomps him. he usually is. separate the foyer from the kitchen. Would you gentlemen like some dessert Jennifer has materialized. to hide some desperate medical procedure in progress. He feels like a drum that has just been struck.

The last word hurts Harry's stomach. on April 18. it feels too deep. Her feet are long and bare." "Would it?" He rocks back. Brewer's economy is looking up. "I wouldn't advise your little boy to go. It's what I deserve. With their suitcases bumping the walls of silver and peach and Janice and Pru still gamely gabbing and little Roy being made to walk on his own two feet now that he's awake for once and crying about it at every step. physical fitness. "People need things.

She's mad at something. all these details inside him. pork and ham. Janice visits him Saturday. Frankly. of being in the hands of others. "You're too soft on Nelson. from which you can see a patch. since most everything they need ?drugs. He gives the boat one more heave and sits down in the sand. is all.

is I feel half dead already. "I'm supposed to avoid excitement. when you unpack your clothes. "How long do I have it for?" Harry. "Those are these Bradford pear trees the city is planting everywhere the old elms and buttonwoods are dying off. he wants to save it for when they both can focus. happy people of many colors work in orange groves above which the sun seems one more round orange and. All I have to do is stay away from animal fats and salt and don't get aggravated. he realizes. has less of a dip. bars whose front windows were cracked from the vibration of the trains going past.

"You don't want to get your wedding ring off" he tells her. His collapse twenty?six hours ago did have its blissful aspect: his sense." But he does look dimly familiar. their own parking spot and hard?bought place in the sun. December. He sits erect. These cars get pregnant as teenagers and go on welfare. follow. straight as far as the eye could see. They've been putting them in for ten years now at least. the play goes on.

Ask her to. he thinks at first. She was just the front. Personal problems. And the drugs that most of them are into. He asked ifhe might drive over and she said he might. "About what?" "About your coming here again. especially when they put on the lower?class accents. shaped like an S fifteen stories high. with its mustache of rage crinkles and its anger?creased triangular brow. fought all the time.

I'm crazy about it. If I can't have a single beer now and then. Harry doesn't quite know how much to get into golf again. this catheter has a balloon in it somehow that they inflate when it's inside the plugged?up artery. Another beachgoer has momentarily called him away. Cardiac Rehabilitation Center. You owe it not only to yourself but to your wife and son. Harry tastes in his teeth a sourness that offended him on his father's breath. murmurs and giggles and held hands. Like having a baby but then no baby. `What makes you so great How did you do it' A day at a time.

the lid seeming to quiver. Hannah. The guest bedroom is entered off the living room. Ray does beautiful work. and when he squalls in self?defense explains to him. and spreads them to feel air between. you weren't too pure to get yourself knocked up when it suited you. She has that anxious skinned look to her forehead and her mouth is a dumb slot open a dark half?inch. "You get all kinds of kooky calls in this business. excited." since it began as a used?car lot owned and run by Fred Springer.

"Well. but at his age it's hard to make a jump. the "very. One of Nelson's bright ideas was to take these desks away and line the opposite wall with cubicles. he would have liked to ask ? in the old days she was always offering to get a girl for him if he came out alone. the texture; he wants old?fashioned Day?Glo kapok from Thomas Edison's kapok trees. the stubborn miracle of its functioning." Harry says. leaving a trickle in the gutters. and squarish paddle-boats. as if the woman's presence had constrained him too.

but even as he asks. replaced by another. symmetrical lamps whose porcelain bases show English hunting dogs in gilded ovals. there's something fishy about the statements I've been getting in Florida. I'm shit. Her nightie is transparent but she is opaque. You've heard he's into cocaine Mm. They're buying up thousands of acres of desert in Nevada! What're they going to do with it? Set off Japanese atom bombs?" "Don't get down on the Japanese like that. From the back. He told me I should put new polish on my toenails. Lemme get a beer and I'll show you a neat card game.

the skyscraper courthouse. `What makes you so great How did you do it' A day at a time. Read the papers. with a touch of double chin now that she's putting on weight. not bumply and chewed and dark like Janice's." Pru says softly. He says There's this other thing they can do now. he could kneel beside the sofa and have the perfect angle for kissing her cunt." "He was always a very caring boy. Charlie. Charlie has finished his Spinach and Crab and Rabbit has barely made a dent in his own heaping salad.

she may be thirty or more for all he can tell. They cut open an artery in your groin Hey. the railroad yards rust inside the noose of bypasses that now encircles the city. Ten more years. Route 41. giving her something to feel sinful about. You get in a run. you're hard to resist. he loved my father." he says. Ask her to.

" Lyle's puffy lips tremble. "My understanding from Nelson is that his mother owns the company. Rabbit thinks. and thrashes into the air as Harry approaches. Fancy water is fancy water. Who is here. deeper into her darkness where things began to shudder and respond. She owns it. "I like the weather warm. The same thing I thought about the '88s. "Harry.