Blue in the Face Page #7

"Shrine of Flatbush, '

will make way

for apartment houses.

The old ball park, standing for nearly

half a century, comes to the end of the trail.

The stands where thousands

once roared...

await another kind

of wrecking crew.

Home plate is dug up

to find a niche...

in the Baseball Hall of Fame

at Cooperstown.

At the sad ceremony, Roy Campanella

is surrounded by old Dodger players...

Tommy Holmes, Ralph Branca

and Carl Erskine.

They watch stoically for the demolition

of their old playground.

Now it's play ball again...

but not the sort

Dodger fans cheer.

This time, Ebbets Field itself

is struck out.

Today is my birthday,

and I'm 18 now.

Da-da-da-da da-da

That's so sweet.

Nobody sung it to me yet.

Brooklyn will take care

of me tonight, though.

If I go around my way and tell everybody

today's my birthday, they'll celebrate.

You'll see fireworks,

but they'll be gunshots.

And, um... people'll probably hit me

with cakes and eggs and powder socks.

That's how they celebrate

my birthday.

I don't get no cake

and can eat it.

I have to get it smashed in my face, and

beat with a powder sock for a surprise party.

Walk in my building 'cause somebody beat me

with a sock, and hit me with a egg probably.

Y'all have a nice day.

- You too. Happy birthday.

- All right. Thank you.

Ay, Augusto.!

You make me

so horny!

You make

my tripas tremble.

Ay, Augusto.!

You would be

so wonderful...

if only you were different.

That Auggie.

That Auggie,

he gonna drive me cuckoo!

First he say "yes"...

then he say "no."

Is "on"...is "off."

Maybe some other time.

But Ramon, you see,

he don't know some other time.

He's going to play

at Freddie's on the sixteenth.

And now, Augusto say

he's too busy on the sixteenth.

Ay.

What gives around here, huh?

Is somebody deaf

or something?

I talk myself

blue in the face!

And still,

it don't do no good.

Lock this door.

- I want you to lock this. All right.

- What's with you, Dot?

I don't want to talk to you.

I don't wanna say anything to you.

- Um, if he comes to the door, don't let him in.

- Vinny?

- Yeah. Where's the money? I know he keeps money around here.

- I count it...

- I know he's got a secret stash besides what's in here, right?

- No, no.

- I'm taking this too.

- What's the matter with you?

It's only today's receipts.

What are you doing?

I'm taking the money.

I told you before.

I'm going to Las Vegas

by myself.

I asked him to go and he doesn't wanna

go, so I'm going to go to Las Vegas.

Not only am I going there for a visit,

but I'm going to go there...

and I might just f***ing live there,

you know what I mean?

- What happened?

- What happened? I told you what happened.

He's a f***in' bore.

I'm going to do something exciting.

I'm going to go to Las Vegas,

and I'm going to wait to see Wayne Newton.

You know what I mean?

Then when I see Wayne Newton...

I'm going to chase him down the street

and I'm gonna mount him like Trigger.

I want out, and I wanna go have fun.

And I'm gonna. I'm gonna.

And don't try to talk me out of it.

Because the last time I tried to talk to you...

you didn't have nothin' to say to me,

I have nothin' to say to you.

I have nothing to say to him.

And you're gonna tell him that for me.

Nothing about your life

is boring, right?

You're just terribly excited

about everything that you do?

You're terribly excited about everything.

Everything's like A-okay, okeydoke, right?

- I'm in a good place. Yeah.

- I don't think you're in a good place.

I've known ya for a long time.

I don't think you're in a good place.

I say that as your friend. I don't think...

I think you could be in a better place.

- Like where?

- I don't know! I think you could be in a better place.

Like... I think you could be

in a better place...

like... Las Vegas

is a better place.

Would you want

to go with me?

- What?

- I mean, I have money and everything.

I think you deserve to be loved very f***ing

well. I really do think that about you.

I know you don't have that

and I could do that.

I, I could, um...

I could do that.

Give me some of this.

I could love you very well.

Would you go to Las Vegas

with me?

Jesus, Dot.

Would you go to Las Vegas

with me?

Will you come to Las Vegas

with me, honey?

Dot, Jesus. What am

I doing to my friend, Dot?

Everybody's got friends.

You got enough friends.

This ain't right, Dot.

No, no.

No, no. Dot, this ain't right.

This ain't right.

Listen, I really care about you.

I really care about you.

But this ain't right.

It ain't right. This ain't right.

- Listen, listen. Nothing's right.

- No, no, no.

Nothing in the whole f***ing world

is ever right. Do you know?

- Things that are wrong are good!

- Yeah.

- They could be good.

- They could be good. That's right.

- I've always wanted to kiss you.

- But this is wrong.

I've always wanted to kiss you.

Just let me kiss you.

- I can't say I haven't wanted to kiss you either.

- Just let me kiss you.

I can't say...

No, no, no. Dot.

- Dot, I want you to stop it. I want you to stop it.

- Okay, f*** you. I'm going.

Good-bye.

Oh, f*** me. F***.

What's going on? What's up?

- What's going on?

- You see Dot go out? She was just here.

- Yeah.

- Yeah?

What's going on?

She didn't talk to me.

She seemed very upset.

- Oh, man. Oh, man.

- Where'd you go?

Because I did not want you

to come in. Do you understand that?

Do you speak English?

I don't wanna talk

to you anyway.

You're not going anywhere.

- Why?

- What do you mean, why? What the hell you talkin' about?

- I'm going to Las Vegas.

- For what?

For what? To be in show business.

To have excitement.

To do things besides watch you sit

on the couch and watch f***ing TV.

- Be in show business?

- Well, around show business!

I'm not talking to him.

Tell him I'm not gonna talk to him.

- You want me to tell him?

- L... What?

- Five times you want me to tell you?

- What did I do?

Tell him I'm not talking to him because

he does not know how to communicate.

- Communicating. Do you know what that means?

- Yeah. What's the matter?

What does it mean?

Tell me what it means. Define it!

- Talking to each other.

- Talking. But what comes after talking?

Do you have any f***ing idea

what comes after talking?

It starts with an "L." I'll give you

a clue. It starts with an "L."

- It's three syllables. You know what it is?

- Yeah.

- What is it?

- Listening.

- Yes! Thank you. You win the big f***ing jackpot.

- I'm listening.

- No, you don't know how to listen.

- I'm listening!

I told you what the problem is.

Then why are you asking me again?

- I'm listening.

- You're not listening!

- What's the problem?

- The problem is that you never, ever listen!

- I'm listening now! Tell me!

- You don't listen to me.

What am I doing?

- You're listenin'.

- I'm listenin'.

You want a Belgian waffle,

go to Belgium.

Don't go to the Dutch part,

go to the French part.

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