that are young and rising like sap where his is old and sinking. They're getting a total revamp out by '91.

In the Penn Park quarter?acre that Janice and Harry acquired a decade ago
In the Penn Park quarter?acre that Janice and Harry acquired a decade ago. "How is Wonder Woman?" Once he confided that he called Janice that and Thelma has never forgotten. Roseanne. begging for easier terms."SUN AND MOON. Then as now. the hair of their chests pure white." sighs Rabbit. Much as Janice irritates him when she's with him. Janice waits for more. A distance down the beach." she says finally." His face feels hot and his heart is racing but in a steady sweet way.

and she moves away from him impatiently. Trichosanthin." she says. now that he and Thelma are on hold. Who could be more authorized than me? I used to run the place. Aortic and mitral." "Even at eighty?two you'll still be my son. and lifesavers are compulsory. but not distressed either: resigned. You smoke them in a kind of pipe. Grace was her name. disappointingly ordinary. Cute.

as if he is standing up to his knees in old age. Silvers. he would have liked to ask ? in the old days she was always offering to get a girl for him if he came out alone. It pumps with a kind of twisting motion. The air?conditioning in here feels turned off; the local temperature has again climbed into the eighties. Hannah Koerner. they have to have these video games -" "Jesus ? fifty thousand buys a lot of video games. Cunts like Chesapeake oysters." Harry tells her. his lashes long as a girl's. His hands shake more than a young man's should." They are hiding something from him." Lyle says.

" She likes the sound of "darling. Pru confessed to me. It looks rich. and wanting to punish him for her dislike. now that he can't seem to deliver. "Here's an off duty assistant fire chief hit a motorcycle with his blinkers and siren on ? probably stoned. but you're young what. Most of the fat has been pressed out of it. catching up on the fate of common acquaintances ? Peggy Fosnacht dead." Thelma says." "He was always a very caring boy. You get in a run. Everybody tailgating.

This is good. darker even than Nelson's and Janice's. Ollie down in New Orleans she heard. especially in the love scenes. The tall awkward girl with her strange white roostercomb trembling in the air still hovers. a visitor." He looks her up and down and says with a new thrust in his voice." "What a disgusting baby tattletale. Each turning off of Route 41 takes some people home. attracted the squirrels. How could any of us ever forget it?" He stares some more. She has that anxious skinned look to her forehead and her mouth is a dumb slot open a dark half?inch. like Ma Springer used to look.

It makes it easier on Him. his notched key scratching at the wiggly small slot. She's furious at me for replacing her. and the LAD depending on the restenosis. his face getting a careful look. Maybe the guy was too far gone. Janice is at his side again. that has enwrapped him at the age of fiftyfive like a set of blankets the decades have brought one by one. First they take the cocaine out. with puffy pink lids." "You do this. at some depth was a coming back home. for modesty she supposes.

Poor Dad. Beer has come on the end of Jennifer's lean arm. It's in your favor evidently to be middle?aged. He lights a Camel and throws his head back to drink the last of the coffee. and avoids his eye. "The Laws of Real Property and Conveyancing" for three hours one night." he tells her at last. Thel. precise way of speaking." "Thelma? We never see her anymore. At his age. at the beginning. it's no end of expense.

Downstairs. Rabbit wonders what his own life would have been like if he had been circumcised. you're in good shape. God sees to it. The announcers keep saying they've never seen anything like it. What women go through. Her voice asks. The door to 413 has a double lock operated with two keys. had the real taste of it in my mouth. looks like another customer out there. though to Harry they seem disappointing. But the first half is so good he eats the second and even dumps the sweet crumbs out of the wrapper into his palm and with his tongue licks them all up like an anteater. "Better rest up for Bingo tonight.

a lot of people don't like taking them out in this much wind. Gregg turns to Pru and asks. Alongside 41. kid. on Wednesday and Saturday nights. #413. now that he and Thelma are on hold. reaching again with his fork. The city is quicker than he remembers it. Mim's face and voice had those tiny cracks too. In fact. a closet door to the left and on the right see?through shelves of stained wood Janice has loaded with birds and flowers she made out of shells in a class she took that first year down here. That strange.

Manning in Service. Her waist is thicker. quelling the birdsong. This rankled. in front of another hotel. "What's he saying?" Harry asks. They have made love on that sofa. isn't that strange. Gregg says. He sees no signs of the Kaposi's spots. the lady professor told us. gradually stopped visiting the Gulf. than they used to? On these TV shows that have British actors.

But who were you to mind that. He really knows how to live. Americans want to go back to fins and convertibles and the limo look and these Japs are still trying to sell these tidy little boxes. "It helps the panic." he croons to her." he says. To work it all through his system he usually has a second beer. This is peace. and a couple kinds of lettuce. You're not the surgeon." A nice April shower has started up outdoors. made it too real. by the way.

Charlie says. All teeth. "Everybody dies. A battlefield of good and evil. not from the way he was screwing Ruth before Harry was. though he had to make his tongue do it. With the mechanical. of dead crab. blood running the wrong way. Children. It cracks the plaque. golden and foamtopped and sizzling with its own excited bubbles." Harry tells him.

" Harry says. There are these scientific studies that show coke is much less harmful to the body than booze. across the little air space. the roundnesses in her green uniform pressing on Rabbit's awareness as he sits at the square tiled table trying to frame his dilemmas. I don't want to eat any junk." The tip of her little tongue creeps out and presses on her upper lip. on the end there. to sit in. If you wish to consult a lawyer -" His breathing is becoming difficult; it is almost a mercy for Harry to interrupt. se?or. you must have noticed. I suppose their hearts failed in the end but so does everybody's." "We don't know anything for sure.

" "Did you have any this morning? Before you came out ofyour bedroom to face me?" "Hey. for Chrissake?" "I have no idea. He blinks several times. The license plates still have an orange keystone in the middle. The blocks were built solid. This room is so finished. his hand jumping the way it does when he's feeling crowded in the chest. A tall black man. Judge. the Brewer Standard. a strain on the heart. feels absolute. Changes have been made since last November.

He plays with these three Jewish men. She committed suicide. I hid behind the curtain and let him just stand there until he got exhausted and rode away. Bessie had the feeders all on wires and poles in her Joseph Street back yard to frustrate the squirrels. maybe some chuba that's dried sardines. drawing at last away. eight years under Reagan of nobody minding the store. he perceived the world around him as gaseous and rising. though usually over the years she opened the garage for him and closed the door electronically from within the kitchen. and unlocking our antibodies with its little picks. sweetly packed with blood; he is pleased that the Vasotec may make him lightheaded but leaves him enough blood pressure for one of these unscheduled. all these lives that are young and rising like sap where his is old and sinking. They're getting a total revamp out by '91.