SIMON meets t at ternational Arrivals Building, from ing, but s A, B, C, and D -- Russian poets so fabulously gifted t none of to publis. quot;ts terrific,quot; ;You look beautiful.quot; quot;t; s;tood Englisimes as good as regular Englis; Sices t ;s t?quot; eak, a steak big as a Sunday times. Seak into ;I dont get your metap; s;Is it ;
S, it is tell her.
t in c;t; ; a little. . . repetitive?quot; quot;My burning barns,quot; s;my splendid burning barns, Ill burn as many barns as I damn please, Pappy.quot; en years, and s altogetely stunning, a black ter-lengt embossed ted sleeveless jacket, a yello. quot;Seriously, do you too many? Barns?quot; Its t time s anyted ;I ; ;But t; s;Every one Ive ever kno; quot;Simon says,quot; Simon says, quot;Simon needs a beer.quot; So fetc. Pauli Girl from tor.
t lives in try, in an old Putnam County farm s touc to paint ted over ture is junk golden oak, one piece to a room except in tcable and tc;t; t says, quot;from my motato-c tell you any?t;
Simon takes train from Grand Central to Put?nam County. like train, almost al air conditioning, and es c Croton, train to anotampede t tately s at Garri?son at trip sting on toyota pickup, drinking apple juice from a paper cup.
t sings to him:
Row, row, row your bed
Gently doream. . .
tlers if t bitcarts dont keep tragic ance.
quot;Sounded a little pissed,quot; Anne says.
quot;t; says Veronica, quot;I guess you cant blame t itude.quot;
Dore says, quot;Let ;
quot;Simon is passive.quot;
quot;I dont tigy of tant.quot;
quot;I tive till sore. I dont call t passive.quot;
quot; a strange place in ;
quot;Youre like one of tiny little insig;
quot;t;
quot;Youre like one of tive gro in dismal exfoliations.quot;
quot;Youre funnin me.quot;
quot;Youre like one of t kno;
quot;ell to be vulgar.quot;
quot;Yes t;
quot;;
quot;I say.quot;
quot;ell to be vulgar.quot;
quot;You one?quot;
quot;One ;
quot;Bang.quot;
quot;s it got on it?quot;
quot;Sprinkles.quot;
quot;Na decadent.quot;
quot;;
quot;You call t slender?quot;
quot;I except t;
quot;een times in a good mont;
quot;ts depressing.quot;
quot;I ts depressing.quot;
quot;I really to be more vulgar t present being.quot;
quot;ell ;
quot;I guess nobody.quot;
quot;I guess we could dance co-c;
quot;I guess ear up some little buncs.quot;
quot;ell to be destructive.quot;
quot;e pretend to be okay.quot;
quot;Im fine. Im really fine.quot;
quot;I a lot of time on it, buffing tore, oiling t. us and reduce us to notters.quot;
quot;?quot;
quot;Read it in a feminist text.quot;
quot;I gonna let us read any more books.quot;
quot;?quot;
quot;Just around. On to.quot;
quot;Maybe it ter for us so be so exacerbated.quot;
quot;Youre like one of t before its time.quot;
quot;ell ts ;
quot;I t;
quot; is it?quot;
quot;Camaro.quot;
quot;Youre like one of tty dreams, knoy dreams.quot;
quot;?quot;
quot;I played in a band once.quot;
quot; rument?quot;
quot;tambourine.quot;
quot;Cant get a union card for tambourine.quot;
quot;My knee all black and blue, I banged my tambou?rine on it. First t;
quot;I saiful ass. In a picture. It oo it iful picture.quot;
quot; make you feel?quot;
quot;Inferior.quot;
quot;ell ts .quot;
quot;Id like to lig;
quot;Yes you ;
quot;But I still t I t;
quot;Its o get a scrape o lig;
quot;Ive done it times.quot;
quot;Leaves you .quot;
quot;It does.quot;
A: Ive crossed botroopslantic once, on a passenger liner. You stand out t t dusk, and tless, er in every direction, never-ending, you ter forever, t of t also seems inexorable, you feel you sev?enty million square miles, about one-t be making ty knots, Im eating oranges because ts all I can keep do ourist class, rato our table Paderees --
Q: I empted to become a s t science.
A: But he scis?sors?
Q: you realized t s going to stab you in the scissors?
A: A lot of people go along assuming t. And t stabbed in the scissors.
Q: You saion to tist .
A: No no no.
Q: Im a doctor. You can tell me. Im used to errible things.
A: I felt blessed.
Q: Your rembling.
A: t imes.
Q: ?
A: All lovely, all.
Q: I dont these women looked like.
A: Dore on to it. A good inc as t oo, a blonder blond. Very good foreail a lot of time. Anne hair.
Q: Did you feel, on treet o t, t you looked strange together?
A: Never occurred to me.
Q: You do cure sligood --
A: Notter hes.
Q: You see clients in thes?
A: Of course not. I put on a jacket and tie and --
Q: ie of rough wool --
A: Its a uniform, yes.
Q: Im greatly comforted. I dont like to t of uniform.
A: Nor do ts.
Q: Bellies. Ive ally drao tle, less overt, sculptural repre?sentation of all tactile values e h --
A: All sculpture is about o look at it t
ombs are about o look at it t he Grand Canyon.
Q: tower?
A: About o women.
Q: he male?
A: Monks.
Q: Is t women?
A: Speeds us toers go about tasks.
Q: about coveting your neighbors wife?
A: ell on one side, in Prictly speaking, t I dont covet able, quite lovely and spirited, but in point of fact our relations of neigart tery is dead, s acres of basil, not literally acres but -- Any ts mucing your neig speaking administra?tively, I dont see devoted to it. Its a mental exercise, coveting. to covet is not necessarily to take action.
Q: I covet my neig Vari-Flo deal t lets you --
A: I obey ts, t knoalking about I ig?nore t tory of to t discoursing on tate. At turns to t;I le about it as ;
Q: God critiques us, ique him. Does Carol also engage in dalliance?
A: you are. I think she has friends whom she sees now and again.
Q: make you feel?
A: I wish her well.
Q: s in your ?
A: t cards, pictures of Saray dollars in cass --
Q: It seems to me t deal to . Does t itself in t til its cooked.
A: Carol is mad for radis get enougoo.
Q: I am feveriserested in tions. Et is. Moral precept?ing stings to attentiveness.
A: Im only a bit depressed, only a bit.
Q: A ne of ideas, based upon t ts, is not an index of decadence. Decadence itself is not as bad as its been painted. As for myself, I am con?tent oo little, I kno myself and I do not commend myself for it and pero co a s decisively to grasp --
A: the leaf blower, for example.