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Show Acting Alone pa g e 131 Shannon laughed. "Look how skinny he was! Like a giraffe!" Auntie went, "You think it's funny! I told your mama you shouldn't of went up to university. You been corrupted 'gainst your country and flag!" Auntie choked up. "Don't cry, Auntie. I haven't been corrupted against nothing. He just looks so sad and cute, that's all." Then Spikey came in, saw his mommy crying, and sort of went nuts, yelling "Mama, Mama! What's wrong?" And the poop hit the fan, and Shannon found herself at the Greyhound station (again) with nothing but bus fare. "If you're serious.at all about that cat-licker religion of yourn," Spikey yelled out the window of his stupid old Ramcharger that he was so proud of even though it wasn't him that paid for it but Uncle Sam, "then you better get your little buns up to see Polly at the convent and commence prayin to Mother Mary or whoever for a little guidance. Seein as how you're so dang mixed up that you can call that guy cute!" Shanny had come here to Saint Paphnutius in spite of that dipwad suggesting it because she was out of money and wanted a place to sleep for a few days. She didn't want to go back yet to her dorm room at school and be in the same town as mean old killer Bouncy and Sammy and everybody. This was partly because she wasn't sure if Sammy was a socialist humanist and if she really should be mad at him, or if she should not be mad at him and should help to protect him from being killed by Bouncy, or if she should encourage Sammy to fight like, a man and get killed by Bouncy, or if she should encourage Sammy to return to Kiev like a man and get killed by Spikey's creepy social club buddies with the yellow ribbon armbands, or |