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Show Jeffries, Section 3, Page 59 in the reunion. It goes back twenty years when we all paired off. Now Porky there's got a home on some good land and it's like up north, he's finished the basement, made it into a nitespot, hey we play "Leader of the Pack" and that answer song, "Leader of the Laundromat," and, what else, Jane--" "We got "The Purple People Eater" and "Saint George and the Dragon-net," Stan Freeberg, oh Jesus is it funny 'Just the facts, Ma'am. . .'" "Paul and Paula. Oldies. We got Jan and Dean--" "Yes, a certain flatness of tone, they project a convincing insincerity--" "But I'm in the Goddamned condos!" Elmer interrupted, "Don't come to my place--I'm going crazy with the paper-thin walls--" "Condominiums," Dorian Clayton agreed, "Generally speaking an audacious effort to get us excited about company houses, row houses--" "No it's better in the houses," a woman continued, "Friday nights, party lights and a hot wind through the bungalows." That's good that's the Joan Didion line, Dory thought And now confusingly they were talking all around him. "Aphids." "Okay Dick what is 'aphids'?" "What's the big idea?" Big Dick challenged. "It's like just the other day the little boy asks. Son, I lost |