When arrested
for sodomy in Indonesia, Clem said to the examining
magistrate:
"'Tain't as if it was being queer. After all they's only
Gooks."
They appeared in Liberia dressed in black Stetsons
and red galluses:
"So I shoot that old nigger and he flop on his side one
leg up in the air just akicking."
"Yeah, but you ever burn a nigger?"
They are always pacing round Bidonvilles smoking
huge cigars:
"Haveta get some bulldozers in here Jody. Clean out
all this crap."
Morbid crowds follow them about hoping to witness
some superlative American outrage.
"Thirty years in show business and I never handle
such a routine like this. I gotta dispossess a Bidonville,
give myself a bang of H, piss on the Black Stone, make
with the Prayer Call whilst dressed in my hog suit,
cancel Lend Lease and get fucked up the ass simul-
taneous.... What, am I an octopus already?" Clem
complains.
They are conspiring to kidnap the Black Stone with
a helicopter and substitute a hog pen, the hogs trained
to give the Bronx cheer when the pilgrims show. "We
try to train them squealing bastards to sing: 'Three
cheers for the Red White and Blue,' but it can't be
done...."
"We connect for that wheat with Ali Wong Chapul-
tepec in Panama. He tells us it is a high grade of shit
this Finnish skipper die inna local jump joint and leave
this cargo to the madame.... 'She was like a mother
to me,' he says and those were his last words.... So we
buy it in good faith off the old gash. Laid ten pieces of
H on her."
"Good H too. Good Aleppo H."
"Just enough milk sugar to keep her strength up."
"We should look a gift horse in the ass already?"
"Isn't it true than when you got to Hassan you gave a
banquet for the Caid and served couscous made from
the wheat?"
"We sure did. And you know those citizens were so
loaded on that marijuana they all wig inna middle of
the banquet.... Me, I just had bread and milk...
ulcers you know."
"Likewise."
"So they all run around screaming they is on fire and
the bulk of them die the following morning."
"And the rest the morning after that."
"What they expect already when they rot theirselves
with Eastern vices?"
"Funny thing those citizens turn all black and their
legs drop off."
"Horrible result of marijuana addiction."
"The very same thing occurred to me. |