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watch out for the carpet here the edge

of it don't get your toe C Under The

Edge will be I mean I

won't I've been walking boot since I was

more in

pracy you're from where Nebraska uh no

uh

Oklahoma um uh big eagle Oklahoma

outside

Tulsa you get blackouts in big angle

electrical blackouts like this uh big

eagle no not really uh not too many

lights to begin with not big eagle tuls

is a big town though you ever been there

no sir farthest west I've been is Jersey

City that's in New Jersey just across

the Hudson River uh do you mind uh open

the door for me if this Lantern and egg

foods to get

key there you are

sir

sweetheart you in here somewhere

got us some Chinese

food good Chinese food the best lon's

the best around

here and New York has got the best

Chinese food in the world even better

than in

China at least that's what our Chinese

guests tell

me I was never actually in China myself

but I guess the Chinese should

know I'm sure they'll have the lights

fixed soon the candles should last until

they do there are more candles in the

desk there beside the window if you need

them well the phones are working at

least they wear it a few minutes

ago if you need anything else please

just call down ask for

Sean I'd recommend though

that you stay in the room until the

power comes on again man New York is not

Oklahoma you know there are plenty of

people who take advantage of a situation

like this one you know what I'm talking

about thanks we'll be all right uh do

you mind if I keep this uh

Lantern uh bird I mean well sure no

problem listen they'll have this fixed

before you finish your dinner well uh

come back and get the lantern you need

it or anyone else does we got plenty

don't worry enjoy your dinner f

you can open the money

come

on open up your eyes

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it's like being inside a Christmas tree

isn't

it like sitting on one of the

branches surrounded by

ornaments

yeah I see what you

mean this is something though is it come

all the way to New York the city

Alliance and there rain

H maybe that's paris's City Light

it's well Broadway anyway the great

white

way only now it's

black where's that London has a great w

way well let me tell you sweetheart when

I was out getting the Chinese people

were running home and they were they

were bumping into one another it was a

lucky thing that I got into the Chinese

resta when I did too cuz as soon as the

lights quit those guys ran the front

door and they locked

it them Chinese Fells weren't taking no

chances they're real polite to me though

they apologized for taking a little

longer than they said it was ordinary

for my

order didn't charge me no

tax least I said they

were the

man went to the front door unlocked it

and let me out and he

said be

careful hurry be

careful

Danny we're not in

Chana no honey

New

York we're in New

York why did you speak Chinese to that

man what man

the doctor that was here

before that was the bell

boy we're seeing the doctor

tomorrow

remember and you know I can't speak

Chinese barely get by an

American don't be so

modest you know Spanish

too yeah just about 25 words maybe like

hos raneros and

bua C too SE

equal what's

a what's that

mean all

things being equal

it's an

expression you know what an expression

is

Danny don't try to fool

me last thing I try to do is fool you

sweetheart you know that I I care more

for you than anything in the

world there's fooling around and then

there's trying to

fool fooling arounds what we always done

best I don't you think you still like to

fool around with your old Dany don't you

even after all these

years it has been a long

time hasn't it

Danny almost 17 years

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all it's

War it's

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warm I in the

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dark but I could sure use some air cool

could we' be

on Lake o

Sage we're back

home

can wouldn't you like that

darl we were back

home lying in the

canoe looking up at the

stars likeo Sage

is it a Chinese

doctor the one I'm seeing

tomorrow he's

Chinese forget about this

Chinese only thing

is Chinese is this

food that's waiting for us to eat here

in this

bag the doctor's name is

Smith hersel Smith he's a specialist

honey he'll know what to

do the clinic and Tulsa said Dr Smith is

the best that there is

he's expecting us

tomorrow you were

away when honey when was I

away I'm not

sure you were

though away in the sea of

red oh

Red Sea you mean when I was in the

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Navy oh of

course when you said lakeo

Sage I thought of it

I took a walk and everything was just

like

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this there were lights on in the

dark just small

ones little shimmering Lots

oh L on in the houses around the lake

mean I saw you on the other

side and I shouted daddy daddy

but it wasn't you it wasn't

you a fish jumped

what kind of

fish Chinese

fish how could you tell it was

Chinese because it told my fortune

are you sure this was at Lake

oage it

jumped straight up out of the black

water and spoke to

me you never told me this

before

honey I just thought you'd think I was

is crazier than I already

am I don't think you're

crazy I don't know what to call it but

it's not crazy maybe Dr Smith has his

name for

it a fish By Any Other Name is still a

fish even if it's

Chinese definitely if it's Chinese

whoa so what this fish tell

you about the

children what about them all about

them their names their hair

color the shapes of their noses

what children I

at

ours yours and mine Danny all of

them how

many

six six Al

together do really want to know honey I

got no place to

go not without you

anyway Danny you were always the

sweetest

child you were one of

them one of

who the six

children you were first

the

largest with red hair and blue

eyes the rest were

girls five perfect girls each one of

them had brown hair and brown eyes and

brown

skin they looked like

FS daddy these are our children don't

you recognize

them I love you

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D I I I've loved you since I was five

and you were three 17 years and I love

you more than

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ever I know Danny

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you did have

a

child daddy junor Dan

bug that's right

d Dan

book called them danb

you remember what happened to

danb not

really she

do come

on he was

two two years old

how old is he

now

two can't get any

older might have gone in the Navy

Danny like you

did might

have I wouldn't have wanted him to go

sailing in the sea of red

Sailors don't come back from there

sometimes I came

back I'm

here damn bug

is Dan bug's gone

baby he drowned in the sea of

red he drowned in Lego

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Sage five FS are

fun that's a pretty sentence di the five

FS are that Chinese fish was sure right

about them I'm sure he ain't half wrong

most of the

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time it hasn't been that long

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no I know this isn't China

Danny but I I think I'd like to those

sometime

well that's not

impossible you ready to

eat remember Rinky Dink

Dan what happened to him

yeah I do woman who was driving never

looked in her side view she

said just the rear view

mirror knocked him sideways off his

motor bicycle into the

road right in the path of uncoming

traffic patrolman said rinky dink's head

hit the ground just an

instant before that buck run over his

back

he was an okay

boy

okay he had a 3-in

scar that ran across his

forehead that filled with red whenever

he laughed or was

angry

remember the car that crushed him didn't

leave him

Mark there was only a lot bruise on his

forehead

that would never

heal when Bonnie saw him in the

coffin she said why he looks cuter now

than

ever

yeah when uh I got out of the

Navy for

uh came back to Oklahoma

I went and visited a

guy I'd met in boot

camp we' kept a correspondence

going he was living in the foothills of

the sangr Deo range of

mountains his name was famine

McCoy he reminded me of Rinky Dink or

Rinky Dink reminded me of him I forget

which

anyway we were uh riding out uh on some

back road and this truck and uh we got

stuck in a

rut and we looked around for some Timber

uh to get some traction and all we found

was this stiff dead dog on the other

side of the road so we we uh shoved it

under the wheel and we rocked right out

of there when we got back to the town um

B said to this fell that he knew how

he'd felt real guilty about uh abusing

that dead dog's body and all and the guy

said don't worry about it that's what

the dog's body's there for people use it

all the time um what kind of a name is

that

famine I asked him about that

his real name was Dave I

think he got real famous for uh showing

up at people's doorsteps in his

neighborhood before he went off to the

Navy he'd go out every evening with his

nose up

sniffing just like a dog casing garbage

cans he'd prow around the

neighborhood and he'd smell for who was

cooking

what and then

because he knew everybody in the

neighborhood he could figure out just

what it was that he was going to eat

that

evening he knock on people's

doors and he'd act like it was just

visiting and then he just don't mind if

I do his way into a free

meal so it was his neighbors that

nicknamed him

famine but uh we kept the correspondence

going for a couple years after

that for a while

and he wrote me that he lost an eye in

some work rated

accident and he moved down to Florida

got himself a wife a kid and then she

wrote me that he had

died and it seems that he was out in the

Palm Meadows and he felt this sharp jab

and he looked around to see what had

happened but uh he couldn't find

anything so he

uh he forgot about it he went home and

that night he started feeling real

strange and

he he acted sick so his wife took him to

the hospital they couldn't find anything

wrong with him they left him to go home

and 2 hours later he was

dead uh it seems a snake bit him and if

they had just known about that jab if he

told them what it was they could have

saved him but he didn't tell him it

didn't occur to famine till just a

little while before he faded away that

it wasn't just a pal metal leaf that had

stuck

him

yeah poor

famine makes me hungry sometimes to

think about him

my mother closed the bedroom door what

door my door that's what it sounded like

when she closed it I'd never allow her

to put damn bug to

bed I didn't want him to get frightened

that

way Dan bug could sleep through

anything he used to like to watch the

lightning with me

the double bolt ground lightning like we

get in Oklahoma

too hot to eat I guess

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help

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okay

what is that come

on talk to

me to me

I am not drunk

D I haven't had one drink since you've

been away not

one it was Bonnie who made me wanted me

to go out but I just watched them I had

cranberry juice and soda water that's

all we were at the Cherokee and there

was a good band there played a lot of

old stuff made me cry cuz you were

away I was sitting on the toilet after I

peed crying cuz I missed

you and Bonnie was in there with Rinky

Dink drinking now they offered me some

but you know me and drinks is not on

friendly terms so I

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declined all it took

was that woman's small

miscalculation and rink was

dust I wasn't anywhere

die I wouldn't away oh yes you were you

were too you were off sail in the sea of

red do you know how it hurts your eyes

to stare at the

Horizon if you stare at the hor Horizon

long

enough all you can see is

fire the entire line of the Horizon is

burning fires as far as the eyes can

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see stop pretending

die I am here I wasn't

anywhere I am here

Danny Danny can you keep a

secret

sure

okay when we go to see this doctor

tomorrow the doctor what's his name Dr

Smith Dr Hershel Smith yeah when we go

to see Dr Smith

tomorrow let's not tell him about Dam

bug

okay can we can we just forget about

danam

bug I think Dr

Smith already knows about Dan

buug he talked with the people at the

clinic and Tulsa

they sent him your medical

records that's how come he agreed to see

you I already told you that

honey I told you that before we left

home

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gee Danny it's so dark in

here it's so

hot and and it's

raining and there's nny

moon it's kind of beautiful though the

dark

don't you think

Danny I could get used to this

now that's

spooky spooky the phone it rang

once then it

quit maybe it was a

signal what kind of

signal a message nobody knows we're here

die I mean I didn't tell anybody what

hotel were stay and somebody rang the

wrong room that's

all hello

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hello who is that he asked for you

hello yes yes it is

oh thank

you yes it is dark in here it's very

very dark in here we have candles

though

mhm no I I never

have I'm sure it's

not yes yes Danny went out and got us

some Chinese

food you're very

kind

yes well I hope

so yes thank you we

will bye

who was it do

Smith he was very sweet

the clinic must have told him where we

were

staying what' he say oh he he just

wanted to make sure we were okay during

the

blackout yep he just wanted to make sure

we were comfortable and had

food that must have been him the first

time

too lion was messed up I could hear

someone talking but

uh connection was bad full of static he

just wanted to assure me he said that he

was looking forward to our visit

tomorrow he has a nice voice

Danny he has a good

voice I'm

glad I couldn't live without you Danny I

I really couldn't

Jesus

die you burning

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up die

Diane

Danny I didn't tell you everything about

the fs the

fs you know the five

fawns what about them

honey they have

names did you name them of course I did

Danny don't pretend you don't know I

pretend I what did you call

H

thumb index

middle third

and

pinky pinky is my favorite

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here the one and only

D and buug drowned didn't

he yes honey he

did do you recall how it happened you

and

me was in an intimate

way down on the shore like o

Sage we thought the boy was

asleep but

he got

up went into the

water without making any sound we could

hear by the time we found

him he was

gone it was a long time

ago 2

years not so long

it's a good thing that you can talk

about it though

die if you couldn't I'd probably lose

you all together me and the five BS

yeah them

also that night I was in the

Cherokee not Micky D was

killed Bonnie said something what' she

say oh she was drunk I guess but I heard

her say to Peggy were thought it

was some people just don't deserve to

have

kids and you figured she was mean

you mhm

I didn't take it to heart right

away

but then after it turned out I couldn't

get pregnant

again I started in on it meaning

something there was no way I could get

it on my

head it it just stuck in my brain like a

knife

got so bad I asked him at the Tulsa

Clinic could they just do an operation

get that knife out of

there it ain't been easy on me neither

Ty you drifting in

now oh I

suppose give me a per purpose in life

since the

accident keeping you from getting away

from yourself all

together I have to admit I've been

feeling a little desperate as of

late it's damn hard thing take feeling

useless you don't have a useless bone in

your body

Danny I'll tell everyone we

know if it weren't so damn

hot I'd kiss

you kiss me anyway

look at that

die whole City's lit

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up dny

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hey symmetrical