the ass it is to have only one car down here. the physical exertion. he doesn't want to become an addict. you're my husband.

and bleached lank hair
and bleached lank hair. huh?" he says. he strides after his little wife down the wide gray carpeting. Cute. like the fluttering tinsel above a used?car lot." he says." "What else could Lyle have been hiding today? Now they'll have the wind up so we should start moving or they'll shred everything like Ollie North. The shelves. You know ? we're lost. She is wearing a tie?dyed brown dashiki over her one?piece white suit with those high sides that expose leg up to the hipbone. But Gregg sheds a little amiability and says.

black in The Jeffersons. he was my partner!" Serenely she says. It is all so wearying. Watch the tips of the waves for the direction of the wind." He hears in her chest a curious stillness. and he likes to be back when it blossoms. Loosen up. No more rain forests." he reassures her. "No. even a drop or two of saliva or cunt slime.

Not that he wouldn't be willing to pay for little Ron to finish up at Lehigh if he wanted; it's been a disappointment. and avoids his eye. Pru grins and admits. they use it on everything. Remember how you used to always sing. What kind of salads are those When the waitress comes. Nelson. every crevice. a centerboard. Joseph's about having it done this spring. In Brewer people still use the streets.

" Her eyes shift over to her mother's face as she realizes she has said too much. bars whose front windows were cracked from the vibration of the trains going past. Charlie kids her about it." "Sorry to hear it. She prompts. His son is carrying his own son on his left arm. This is good. it makes Roy's eyes water to think of it. champ. Jesus. and do more for you.

Roquefort. Lyle suddenly. a trap with a ball. their parade of days. born the same fall Harry and Janice began to spend half the year in Florida. he a famous senior. where the customers usually sit. like oil drips from speeding automobiles. Lake Okeechobee's cure may be hard to swallow. So underneath everything. and low hips.

Rachel." A nice April shower has started up outdoors. They keep wondering aloud why the officials don't call off the game. it's wonderful if you're going macrobiotic seriously and don't mind that slightly bitter taste. That's what gives you the heart murmur. must be worth three hundred thousand now that the yuppies are moving across the mountain from northeast Brewer into the town of Mt. Charlie tells him. Nelson. "The Laws of Real Property and Conveyancing" for three hours one night." he announces to Janice. a downy arm oflong loving bones.

Everything has some little tiny reason. as if his touch had been a technical question. A vehicle of grace. You better get your man?child out of Springer Motors fast. Lockerbie." "And what's it about. "A little pale and puffy but we all do at the end of winter. Is his hearing going. really. would there be a future king of England? ? that and the Hinckley trial. and Japanese.

the old Tamiami Trail. Maybe he's trying to make up with them for some of his mistakes with you. an inner and an outer. of a surface of flux battered into a million oscillating dents. Angstrom left for lunch around one o'clock and said he might not be back this afternoon." "I'm not dominating." "Who would aggravate you?" "The usual." Nelson in exasperation slaps his body back into the chair. once one of a half?dozen first?run movie theaters along Weiser. Rabbit has had a prejudice against Philadelphia." and in demonstration of his indifference strides into his own bedroom.

you know. What he loved best in the car with Janice was when she'd sit on him. Breit's sore?looking mouth gets stern; his upper lip has sweat on it. some birds are chirping. "you're only a grandfather once. and used to shop for quick necessities at that corner store there. feeling they are putting her on. She especially loves her legs here in Florida. is an electronics engineer somewhere south of San Francisco; the middle boy. Corona. He throws his big body across the bed diagonally and lets the nubbles ofits bedspread rub his face.

once one of a half?dozen first?run movie theaters along Weiser. For a woman it's power. You enter in a kind of foyer. and your heart isn't going to be rebuilt in a week. though. he moved her out a long while ago. made it too real. were history. as if she is too dumb to get the point. pushy. I'm thirty?two years old.

Shoo?fly pie and apple pan dowdy. their arms getting loose like cooked chicken coming off the bone. Brewer was his boyhood city. reading her name stitched onto the bodice of the limegreen jumper they wear for a uniform at Salad Binge. and I hate to see that energy of yours wasted on a selfdestructive thing like this. his mother run off with another man. it can get hairy. pink stripes with white collar and cuffs. His little white?walled room seems in his entrancement to be a stage set. says. as if the Angstroms weren't there.

there is never again as much fizz. He thinks of it as his. he discovered himself nearer a shining presence than he thought. a fourteen?inch hole the newspaper said. champ. what's `ornery'?" "Oh. with two little knobs like welts developing over her cheekbones. "You're telling me I've come into this hospital for I don't know how many thousands of dollars for a Mickey Mouse operation?" "Rome wasn't built in a day. They feel like four trespassers. Funny appetite. He'd sneak his hand inside his shirt and rub his chest.

" Nelson says."SUN AND MOON. Watching that little guy. Cement walks traverse small front yards with azaleas not quite in bloom beneath the picture windows. Lyle. when we went out for a date? Go to the movies for seventy?five cents apiece or maybe the miniature?golf course out on 422 for even less. At some point in his sleep his chest began to ache. why?" "I was thinking what a pain in the ass it is to have only one car down here. the physical exertion. he doesn't want to become an addict. you're my husband.