When he brings home a whale, she laughs and says, that´s not for real.
And if he won the Irish sweepstakes, she would say, where were you last night?
Where are you now for that matter? Am I always (she says) to be looking
at you? She says, if I thought it would get any better I
would shoot you, you nut, you. Then pats her hair
into place, and waits for Uncle Jim´s deep-fired, all-fat, real gone
whale steaks. |