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Show 110 We fired shots into the sky. BLAM! BLAM! We stood there till dawn firing away at nothing. Big Dick x Jinx had won four tickets to the big Browns - Giants game in Cleveland that would decide the NFL Eastern Conference Champion for selling record numbers of Buckborn pretzels and xaxa potato chips and me and Red were supposed to leave that morning for Cleveland with Big'Dick and Stinky, so when I got home I made myself a cup of coffee and read the Sunday paper, sports and funnies, and waited for Red to wake up with everybody else and drive Helen and Jon and Joseph and Andrew to mass. Red himself was not in a church-going period, though he was plenty religious in a personal way and when he did go he went right along with Helen to Catholic Church because church was church to Red. But with Jon living there and getting messages and Helen having a little brew-ha-ha with iha The Infant over Neda's rheumatic fever Red began exercising his humanity through negativity. Neda was sick so lucky, but Helen was ill in her heart over my disposal of xkaxxa the One True Church and often tried to make Red make me go on the grounds that he signed a paper when he married her that all his kids would be brought up Catholic. Of course once again Red was caught kaia between respecting God and church but resenting Catholicism so kind of happy I was rejecting it and clearly upset because I wasn't going to church and respecting God though unfortunately he wasn't going to church himself which kind of made it hard to get mad at me which made him all the madder. So Red rolled down the stairs a tornado of emotions, nothing new. He sighed a couple times and got his bowling ball and xaxa xxxaxxkxxkiixxixkxk when he came into the kitchen I gave him the sports page and got him some coffee. Of course doing two nice things for him made him suspicious. "When you get in last night?" he said to me. "I was up pretty late with Karl discussing social inequalities and thinking up remedies," I told him. "You stink," said Red. "You smell like booze. I don't want any of my kids becoming god-damn alcoholics. I already got a daughter who tried to eat herself to death." "I had a couple beers," I said. I'd forgotten about the x drinking and about how good a nose Red had. |