James Infirmary?'?
Now, son, don't you get rigor mortis on me. Show re-
spect for the aging prick.... You may be a tedious old
fuck yourself some day.... Oh, uh; I guess not.... You
have, like Housman's barefoot shameless catamite The
Congealed Shropshire Ingenue set your fleet foot on the
silo of change.... But you cant kill those Shropshire
boys... been hanged so often he resist it like a gono-
coccus half castrate with pencillin rallies to a hideous
strength and multiplies geometric.... So leave us cast
a vote for decent acquittal and put an end to those
beastly exhibitions for which the sheriff levy a pound of
fiesh."
Sheriff: "I'll lower his pants for a pound, folks. Step
right up. A serious and scientific exhibit concerning the
locality of the Life Center. This character has nine
inches, ladies and gentlemen, measure them yourself
inside. Only one pound, one queer three dollar bill to
see a young boy come three times at least -- I never de-
mean myself to process a eunuch -- completely against
his will. When his neck snaps sharp, this character will
shit-sure come to rhythmic attention and spurt it out all
over you.
The boy stands on the trap shifting his weight from
one leg to the other: "Gawd! What a boy hasta put up
with in this business. Sure as shit some horrible old
character get physical."
Traps falls, rope sings like wind in wire, neck snaps
loud and clear as a Chinese gong.
The boy cuts himself down with a switch-blade,
chases a screaming fag down the midway. The faggot
dives through the glass of a penny arcade peep-show
and rims a grinning Negro. Fadeout.
(Mary, Johnny and Mark take a bow with the ropes
around their necks. They are not as young as they
appear in the Blue Movies.... They look tired and
petulant. )
MEETING OF INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF TECHNOLOGICAL
PSYCHIATRY
Doctor "Fingers" Schafer, the Lobotomy Kid, rises
and turns on the Conferents the cold blue blast of his
gaze:
"Gentlemen, the human nervous system can be re-
duced to a compact and abbreviated spinal column.
The brain, front, middle and rear must follow the ade-
noid, the wisdom tooth, the appendix.... I give you
my Master Work: The Complete All American De-
anxietixed Man...."
Blast of trumpets: The Man is carried in naked by
two Negro Bearers who drop him on the platform with
bestial, sneering brutality.... The Man wriggles....
His flesh turns to viscid, transparent jelly that drifts
away in green mist, unveiling a monster black centi-
pede. |