wooly top) merely hangs around them.
I feel sorry for them all.
Later that evening,
I sat a few minutes more. Then I went inside.
Just after Denny went out this morning, Lanya brought hack my notebook — this one. The first thing I did was look inside the front cover. 'What about the new poems?' I asked.
'Since they're all on loose sheets I decided I'd keep them in my desk drawer. If you want them…?'
'No,' I told her. 'That8['?]s probably better. They'd just fall out.'
'Did you see the article /in the
'No,' I said.
So she told me.
It made me feel strange.
Once we went back /up/ into /into the loft/ to get something. She found a piece of paper down
I looked at it. 'I guess so. It isn't complete, really. But I'm not interested in it any more.'
'I'll just take it back to my place and keep it with the others,' and she put it in her [-?] shirt pocket; then she jumped down, cried out when [she?] landed,
I thought she'd twisted her ankle.
But it wasn't serious.
We went into the kitchen; she looked into the coffee pail on the stove and frowned at the mess.
D-t came in with a paper. 'Hey, man, that's something, huh?' He had it folded back to the article.
It was on page three.
'What I want to know,' Lanya said, looking through the living room door at Stevie and Woodard (Tarzan was trying to ride them across the floor like a horsie), 'is what you're going to do with them.'
I
Rose walked in, banging the screen, and stared at Lanya on her way to the next room. Lanya smiled: Rose didn't and kept walking. At the doorway she stopped, looked at Tarzan and the boys, sighed, turned around, went back—
Sammy was playing in the middle of the street and did not look at her.
D-t moved the junk aside on the table (Marceline in the room with Tarzan was calling out, 'Let me! Let me…! Come on, let me!') and sat on the up-ended milk crate to read the article to us. The crate was so low the table top hit him just below the tit. /He read the part about: '…/ during the holocaust, broke into a wooden frame house adjoining a grocery store already in flames and let out five youngsters trapped in the second floor rear bedroom. It is reported the bedroom door had been clumsily secured by the back of a chair beneath the door knob—'
'It wasn't a chair,' I said. 'Somebody had taken a fucking piano bench and turned it on its end. The God-damn music had fallen out all over the hall rug. Why. doesn't it mention George?'
'Sound[s?] like you had a reporter standing right there Watching you,' D-t said.
'The[n] how did they know to write about it?' Lanya asked.
'I don't know,' I said. 'George actually got the door open. All I did was yank at the legs. The bench came open and all the music fell out On the rug. The top of the bench was still jammed up in there.'
'Maybe George met a reporter later that evening,' Lanya said. 'He could have told the papers, Kid.'
'…'The children are reported to be safe, but we do not know'…'
'Of course it doesn't sound like George to cut himself out.' Lanya sighed and made a funny movement with her hand, grinding her palm on the greyn[?] formica. 'Oh, Kid…'
'The real question—' Lanya looked up—'is what are you going to do with them. Are you going to keep them here[?]'
'You're out of your fucking head—' I said.
D-t said, 'The guys like them—'
'How many days ago was it?' I said. 'How many days ago, Nightmare and dragon [sic] Lady almost murdered each other? Look!' I went to the living room door. 'There's blood all over the fucking God-damn wall—!'
Fist against his chin, Stevie was looking at me.
Tarzan had sat back on his heels and, concertedly, wasn't.
'Ride me!' Marceline said. 'You rode Woodard before. Now you ride me!'
'Yeah,' Woodard said. 'You ride her now.'
I stepped back into the kitchen.
'What are you going to do with them?'
I told her, 'I don't know.'
Tarzan neighed again.
BRASS ORCHIDS
BLOOM BENEATH
A CLOUDED SKY
This handsome book, or rather booklet, has already become a Bellona commonplace, on night-tables by the reading lamp, in the back pockets of youngsters in the park, or tucked, along with the
True anonymity in a situation such as we have here is, of course, impossible. Since the interview with the author we published a while back, many have simply held it an open secret that the cultivator of these brazen blooms is actual-
This morning I climbed out of the loft soon as I woke up. When I'd gone to bed, they'd been laid out neatly on Raven's sleeping bag he'd opened up full for them by the couch:
Woodard was curled on his side a yard off the edge. Rose had two fingers
I got