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Show Ill "You smell like decay. You got cavities?" "I don't think so." "Then it's that god-damn booze." "Maybe I got a cavity," I said. "Don't get any cavities," said Red. "I don't want axs" anybody else getting sick around here." Red went into the living room and yelled up the stairs. "You're going to be late." He came back in the kitchen. "Your mother will be late for her own damn funeral." "The paper's picking the Browns," I said to him. "They said it was close in New York, the Browns should get them at home." "Not if they wear white," said Red. "If the Giants wear blue and the Browns wear white, the Six Giants always win. I don't know why they don't wear brown. They're the god-damn Browns." Uncle Jon came xi into the kitchen. He hadn't slept for a couple weeks. I'd heard him walking up in Neda's room when I came in. "Jarvis," said Jon. "I'm going to call n Mother and I want you to listen £x for me while I'm at mass." He went into the holy room and called Bush. "Good," he said into the receiver, "you're alive. Don't worry, Red won't hurt us, I'm keeping an eye on him." Helen came downstairs with Joseph and Andrew, both complaining xkx they were sick. "I'm sicker than him. Look at the shape of my head," said Andrew. "What?" said Joseph. "What? I'm getting an infection xx in my good ear. Things look blurry." "Why don't you just shut down," said Andrew. "Shut-up," said Red. V/e all went into the living room and Jon gave me the xx phone. "I'm not dead yet," Bush said to me. "Jon's going to mass with Helen," I told her. "I'll call back in an hour." "I want my own voices back," Jon was xax saying to Helen at the door. "I don't like ii this Grandma Funster. I think she's Protestant Red and Jon glared at each other- "You v/ant to walk to church?" said Red. "Will everyone shut-up!" yelled Neda from her bed in front of the TV. "I can barely hear Oral Roberts." "That's the devil's xai work," Jon said quietly to Neda. •.gy,ii+-im. vou nut." said Neda. |
