Duck Butter Page #2

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Slips away

My blossoms bloom

Bloom, bloom, bloom, bloom

Okay! Wait, wait, wait.

I get it.

Andre, do you think

that's working?

Uh...

Oh, she's the only one.

-You are the truthful girl.

-Yes, I am.

Thank you so much.

It's very hard to have friends

that tell you the truth.

Okay. Let's make a deal.

Which is, like, a singer

you will go crazy about?

Stevie Nicks.

Okay. Let's pretend

I'm Stevie Nicks.

You like that?

Okay, I'm gonna

come down right now

and kiss you.

Oh, no!

We have a date.

Should we do it?

Should we do it, yeah?

Let's go.

That was so beautiful.

Whoo!

Come close, come close!

Come close, people!

Now, let's finish.

So I'm told

I've always been

With flashing flood

And whipping wind

I leave with everything...

It's ultimately a Ponzi scheme

that they created

for our environment.

-You know? Because--

What?

Well, meaning that, like,

past generations,

-the amount of coal

that they burn,

-Yeah.

it costs more in the effects

of climate change

than it costs to get it

out of the ground to use.

What?

It's just that all

our natural resources

were being used

in, you know,

you guys' heyday,

and now it's like

you took us out to dinner

and were like,

"Order everything you want.

Like, lobster tail, dessert,

it's on us."

And then you guys

snuck off to the bathroom

and never came back.

And, like, money

doesn't exist anymore.

-It was just a different time.

-But what's the solution?

After our natural

resources have gone,

it's just all gone.

There has to be a--

Jesus! You have a dark

view of the world.

-My God!

I'm just saying.

New York City, it's like

all these buildings

that are so tall and beautiful.

But people are gonna be,

like, fighting for trees.

Hey, do you wanna

dance with me?

That sounds

like a good idea.

I'm a little bit...

That sounds like

the perfect idea

to get your mind off of the...

Come on, let's go dance.

Go do it.

Shake a leg.

-Yeah.

Come on, now.

Go shake a leg.

Yeah.

-Okay.

Okay!

All right!

Can you guys watch

my jacket, though?

We'll watch your

natural resources over here.

Ha-ha! That's nice.

I'm Sergio.

Hi. Sergio, yeah.

I'm, I'm Naima.

You can call me Nima.

-Nima?

-Nima, yeah.

-You okay?

-Yeah.

I liked your show.

Maxine.

Wait, do you...

These were all your dogs?

Yeah, I foster them.

And then I find...

These are the final owners.

Like, the happy owners?

-Yeah.

I love you.

Do you like dogs?

Yeah. Yeah, of course.

Yeah, they're great.

It's okay if you don't.

What happened

to your friend?

She was

on a date, though.

-It was going well.

-Oh, cool.

Give me kiss.

Oh, I'm scared,

it went through my...

Five, four and go

Everybody's watching

Go, we're judging you

No pressure

Go

The explosively talented

Go

-We do this all the time.

-Yeah.

We barely know you

Go

Anything.

I haven't been to the dentist

In over seven years

But I think that's okay

I feel truly superhuman

Every day

So good.

If I said right now

What I really meant

I guess I'd fall

Right down the stairs

And touch your head

I would really love

To touch your head right now

I would really...

We weren't officially

together or anything,

but it just felt good.

And then, she kind of,

in one swoop,

was, like, pretending

like were just friends

who had never shared

this intimate moment.

Then I pulled back,

because I guess

I don't wanna get hurt

or something.

Susanna has always, um...

Who's Susanna?

-My mom.

-Oh, your mom. Right, right.

Um, she has always

said to me,

try not to go

for the easy thing.

Like, everyone is doing this,

why you should do the same?

And that works in love.

You can't play it safe in love.

Yeah.

You have to just go

and tell them.

You know?

-You want food?

-No.

So I was dating this girl,

and after three years,

I find out

it was a waste of time.

So it was so f***ed up.

Like, why I spent

three f***ing years

of my life with this a**hole?

Right.

So Susanna one day

said to me,

"You know those kind of couples

that they spend, like,

ten years together

and then they get married?

They divorce in one year."

-Right.

-So just get married

right away.

Yeah, do everything you want,

the second you want.

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

I mean, you just get, like,

nervous thinking about it.

-before you do it.

-Exactly.

Just go and have fun

with the things

you have right there.

Yeah, like this.

This whole night.

We should do this

for, like, 24 hours straight.

-Like you and me?

-Yeah.

Eating chips, drinking juice.

-Yeah.

-Having sex.

Let's do it.

-Now?

-I wanna know you, for real.

You got four hours

out of me so far.

I want 24 hours.

And I wanna come with you

every hour.

Hmm.

Isn't it amazing?

It's like dating ten years.

Yeah, we're gonna get

to go to the bathroom.

Sometimes I'm an hour

in the bathroom.

-I want to see you

taking a sh*t.

-Yeah.

I want to see you

getting angry.

We can do it.

We can f***ing skip time.

Um, yeah.

I just have to work on Monday,

so we can't...

We can't...

Actually, you know what?

For your art,

to be busy with life,

it's the best thing

you can do.

I know. But I feel like

our whole bodies

are gonna be

outta whack by then.

It's the biggest job

I've ever had, so it's just...

-I can help you.

-I have to...

I practice alone.

It's embarrassing.

I can't.

I just can't.

It's a fun idea, though.

But...

Next time.

Yeah.

Instead of going

through the format

of regular dating,

and faking it,

and texting and stuff,

you know, it'd just be, like,

we would just be there

all the time.

I kinda think

it would be an amazing way

to get to know somebody.

Hmm.

I mean, I think I was realizing

I was, like, I haven't...

said yes to anything

in so long,

especially with somebody else,

because, like,

no one is even close

to her.

It's like she lives in a way

that she doesn't question

anything about herself.

And when I was around her,

I didn't either.

You should ask her

to go get some coffee

-tomorrow morning and just--

Oh, sh*t.

Oh, it's my manager.

-All right, let's go.

I'm starving.

-Yeah, okay.

Okay.

Right. Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, wait.

It's transferring--

It's transferring

to a car coordinated--

Hello? Hey.

Are you there?

-Yeah, yeah.

Sorry. So, what were you saying?

Maybe I'm...

Maybe I'm soft-pedaling it

for you,

but they're gonna replace you.

What?

I know. I feel horrible.

I know you were

so excited about this,

and, you know,

sometimes on the first day,

when it's just not right

on an indie, you can't...

There's no time,

and so they have to move on.

They don't love you any less,

but it's not gonna work.

Okay, um...

I'll call you back.

Yeah. Okay.

It's okay. Yeah.

Hi.

It's me.

Sorry I didn't text

before I came over.

I just, um...

I was trying not to think

so much about it

and just come here.

Um, I needed to come

and say sorry

about what happened last night

and just, like, leaving

all awkwardly and...

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