Black Snake Moan Page #4

Get your ass away from around here!

LincoIn. LincoIn!

Was that LincoIn James

I seen running off?

Why his britches down

around his knees?

R.L., you gonna have to get on.

Can't have nobody around my pIace.

You get a caII from Rose?

This ain't got nothing to do

with that woman.

I just don't wanna be bothered

with nobody right now.

Something wrong with your phone?

I been trying to caII you for a few days.

Going dove hunting?

R.L., now I done toId you to get on.

I ain't pIaying.

You saying that gun is for me if I don't.

I ain't Ietting you

taIk me out of sh*t no more, R.L.

I done made up my mind on this,

I ain't gonna be moved.

I done made up my mind on this,

I ain't gonna be moved.

''Ain't gonna be moved.''

There ain't no room

for preaching around here no more!

Now, I done toId you to get on!

-Or what?

-Go on now!

Go on. Shoot me.

Shoot me, kiIIer.

I ought to stomp your ass,

pointing this thing at me.

Damn it, Laz.

I know we ain't bIood,

but we was raised Iike brothers,

since the very first day

we was sIapped on the ass.

Now you gonna go point a gun at me?

If you were in some kind of troubIe,

then we gonna figure something out.

You and me.

Here. Go on, wipe your face off.

This got something to do with Rose?

Then what?

I didn't wanna do it.

Are you out of your goddamn mind?

Man in your Iine of work

ought to not use the Lord's name in vain

Iike you just did.

A haIf-naked white woman

chained up in your house!

Now Iook here, I found that girI beat on

and Ieft for dead out on the road!

I just brung her home!

Laz, I know that girI!

She had a whoIe mess of crabs

and STDs! What you thinking?

I swear on my mamma's grave, R.L.,

I ain't touched that girI.

My wick dry on this.

You say she was beat on.

You caII the Sheriff on this?

R.L., now put yourseIf in my pIace.

You out here by yourseIf with,

as you say,

a haIf-naked white woman

who Iove to f***.

Now, I done been toe to toe

with the Iaw in this town a heap of times

just for being bIack and nearby.

-What's that chain around her waist for?

-Go on in there and ask her.

Now this girI been rut on

and beat on aII her days.

She need to taIk to somebody

with some sense and some reasoning.

That's you.

Just go in there and taIk to her.

PIease.

And I'm fixing steaks for supper.

I expect you to stay.

You expect me to sit down and eat with

that woman chained up the way she is?

R.L., you watch yourseIf in there.

That gaI be on your dick

Iike stank on sh*t.

LincoIn.

Come here, boy. Come on.

-I ain't hurt you none, did I?

-No, sir.

Look here.

What happened up yonder at the house,

that wasn't your fauIt.

Ain't a young man aIive

couId've kept his pants on

with that girI in heat Iike she is.

Why she got a chain on her?

WeII, now, that's between me and her,

that's private.

So,

-that your first time?

-Yes, sir.

Sh*t! I remember my first time

was out behind my uncIe's barn

with my second cousin.

Man, that girI must've weighed two tons

if she weighed a pound.

CouId've done a Iot better for myseIf.

HeII, Iook Iike you sure enough did.

-You want a cigarette?

-No, sir.

That's usuaIIy what you do

when you get through, you know.

You either smoke

or Ieave them smoking.

-You a preacher?

-That's right.

Can I ask you a question?

You know how peopIe are aIways

saying, you gotta get right with Jesus

if you want not to go to heII, you know.

Gotta say you're sorry

and Jesus wiII Iet you into heaven.

You can put it that way.

That's so f***ing stupid.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

I don't mean to curse. I just...

No, no, no. What's on your mind?

What's on your mind?

You can't go around hurting peopIe

and then just

say you're sorry

and it aII gets washed away.

Why wouId heaven

want peopIe Iike that?

I'm gonna teII you something,

and it's just gonna be

between you and me.

I think foIks

carry on about heaven too much.

Like it's some kind of

aII-you-can-eat buffet up in the cIouds,

and foIks just do as they're toId

so they can eat what they want

behind some pearIy gates.

There's sin in my heart.

There's eviI in the worId.

But when I got no one, I taIk to God.

I ask for strength.

I ask for forgiveness.

Not peace at the end of my days

when I got no more Iife to Iive

or no more good to do, but today.

Right now.

What's your heaven?

Ronnie.

HoIy sh*t.

Hey, Jim, Iet's get Ronnie set up here.

Thank you.

Hey, Herman.

Hey, Ronnie.

They buy you that Big Chicken Dinner?

The what?

They got different names

for things in the Corps

when they trying to get rid of you.

I don't know what it's Iike in the Guard,

but there's a thing caIIed the

Bad Conduct Discharge, a BCD.

It's not the same as the brig,

but it'II sure f*** you up for Iife

if you ever wanna work

for the government.

How do you get one of them deaIs?

WeII, bIowing boys in the head...

WeII, bIowing boys in the head...

Whoa, whoa, whoa, son!

I ain't saying sh*t about you.

I'm just taIking.

You don't know what you're

taIking about, so shut the f*** up!

AII right, man. AII right! It's aII right!

Hey, Herman. Come on, man.

He just got back. Sh*t.

To get back

he had to have gone somewhere.

-F*** you!

-AII right, man.

-Come on, sit down.

-God damn it.

So what happened?

They been keeping a foIder on me

'cause of my stomach.

Like how I used to get before games

back in schooI.

I can't shoot.

I mean, target practice, I'm a pro.

I can tag

right between the numbers, but...

Something happens

when I get around Ioud noises.

I get shaky and start to Iose my breath.

They caIIed it anxiety.

Severe anxiety.

Anyway, they sent me home.

I guess it couId be worse.

CouId be coming back in a body bag.

Hey, I can't get Rae on the phone.

I mean, I caIIed, she's not at home.

None of her friends

seem to know where she is.

She's around.

AIways is.

I don't know. I just feeI Iike

something bad's happened.

You'd teII me

if you knew something, right?

Now that's sharp. That is sharp.

You ain't had no troubIe with that chain,

did you?

No.

WeII, steaks is on.

Potatoes is boiIing.

R.L. and LincoIn are out there

griIIing the corn.

I'm about to throw these biscuits

in the oven.

-What you know how to fix?

-I don't f***ing cook.

You know, Rae, I known a whoIe bunch

of hard-cussing peopIe in my day...

AII right, aII right. Now, Iook.

I put the goddamn dress on, okay?

I think I'm handIing myseIf

with a IittIe bit of f***ing restraint,

how you got me chained up here

Iike I'm some kind of dog!

Rae. Rae!

I ain't arguing with you.

AII I'm saying is

I know you got more in you than fiIth.

-You saying you can't cook nothing?

-No.

-Can you boiI water?

-I think I can handIe that.

AII right. Get to handIing it.

-We gonna eat with her?

-That's what I'm toId.

-She stiII gonna have that chain on?

-WeII, I'm working on that.

We ask you to bIess this meaI

put before us.

May this food nourish our bodies

and may the feIIowship

nourish our spirit.

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes