Frankie and Johnny Page #7

playing on the lawn.

I bet they were glad to see you.

I didn't get out of the car,

you know. I just couldn't...

They looked so happy and all.

They got so big.

Looked like somebody else's kids.

I just drove away.

It's like I lost them, you know?

That's how I feel.

- Waitress!

- Hello? Can we get some service?

You haven't lost them,

you're just not ready.

Finally! What's safe to eat here?

I'm sorry, we're closed.

What kind of a place is this?

Hurry up, let's go.

- Night, Frankie.

- Night, Andreas.

Here's yours, Frankie.

- You come back any Saturday night.

- Thanks, Maxine.

- Night, Maxine.

- Night.

Was she home? Did you talk to her?

- What she say?

- I'm seeing the kids next weekend.

- Good.

- Thank you.

What is that?

It's a rose.

Grew in the kitchen.

Good night, closing up.

Everything finished. It's good.

What's that?

- It's potato.

- It's a rose.

- Johnny made it.

- On my break.

It's nice.

Red potato, it's very romantic.

Frankie, you want lift home?

It's OK. Thanks.

OK, you know how to close up.

Bring back fork.

- Good night.

- Night, Nick.

Come on, Grandma,

we go home and watch wrestling.

Come on, I'll walk you home.

So, how about you? Do you ever

want to kill yourself sometimes?

Yeah, everybody wants

to kill themself sometime.

Can we change the subject?

- You want me to buy you that?

- Yeah.

If you had any wish,

what you wish to be?

You won't laugh?

- Teacher. Teaching little kids.

- That's good.

What about you?

Did you always dream of being a cook?

No, prison did it.

When I went in and I heard

that "clank", you know, I died.

Then they put me in the kitchen

with food and, I don't know,

suddenly I was born again.

I started to feel

like I could breathe again.

You know,

it was like I had aspirations.

Aspiration?

Have you been shaving again?

So what about this

terminal relationship you had?

What was it? A guy who left you

for your best friend?

Phillip? You know what

the main thing I felt was? Dumb.

I even introduced them.

I lent them money.

I gave her my old television.

They're probably watching it

right now.

I hope it explodes and blows

their faces off.

What about before Phillip?

Anybody else?

I don't wanna talk about that.

OK, but you can't spend the night.

There's gotta be

something in this world

better than watching you do that

but I'm damned if I know what it is.

Yeah, sure.

No, I'd put it up there.

It's a vision, inspired spectacle.

I'd put it up there with

the Grand Canyon,

mother nursing her child,

triumphant facts of nature.

- You been to the Grand Canyon?

- I have not, no.

Me either. I'd like to go there

some day. Hawaii, too.

Open your robe.

No, I don't wanna open my robe.

Why?

I don't know,

I just wanna look at you.

15 seconds, that's all.

- I just wanna look at it.

- Look at what? Why?

I don't know, I just...

To know that I can.

That I can look at the woman I love

and just see her.

Her eyes, her breasts,

her stomach, her...

- Don't say it! I hate that word.

- I wasn't going to.

I hate both of them!

I'll look up some new ones

in my thesaurus.

I never know when you're

playing games or being serious.

It's both. Serious games.

Why do we have to name everything?

Say you had a pet parakeet. If it was

beautiful, I'd want to look at it.

You'd let me look at it

and we'd move on.

I had a parakeet, I hated it.

I was glad when it died.

15 seconds. I'm timing this.

Turn that light out.

I told my cousin I didn't want a

bird. She swore I'd love a parakeet.

What's to love?

They don't do anything

except not sing when you want them to

and sing when you don't

and make that awful scratching noise.

If I ever get another pet,

it'll be a dog.

Something you can hold.

The only time I got my hands on

that parakeet was the day it died

and I had to pick it up

and throw it away. That's enough.

That's got to be 15 seconds.

Happy now?

That music is nice.

It makes me think of grace.

This is Midnight With Marlon.

For information on becoming

a member of the WNYL family,

why not give me a call? 555-1111.

Why do you want to kill

yourself sometimes?

I want to kill myself when I think

I'm the only person in the world

and that part of me that feels

that way is trapped inside this body

that only bumps into other bodies

without connecting to another person

in the world trapped inside of them.

We have to connect.

We just have to.

I feel... very...

Say it.

- I don't know what.

- Say it anyway.

- Protective.

- Good. That's very nice.

I'm looking for somebody

to take care of me this time.

Aren't we all?

Why do we keep going from one subject

I don't like to another?

What is this?

Suddenly the armour's up?

What about your armour?

Besides, I wasn't talking about you.

Not everyone thinks life is a picnic.

Some of us have problems.

Some of us have sorrows.

People like you

are so busy telling us what you want

you don't notice the rest of us

who aren't exactly singing

Yankee Doodle Dandy.

Hold it, how we getting

into this now?

I've done nothing but notice you.

You don't, you smother me.

I'm not giving up everything

for someone I don't know.

I can't repeat the same stupidity.

Who says you have to give up

anything? We're talking about love.

- We're not in love.

- That's what you think.

I think we are. Just because

you've given up on that possibility

there's no need to drag me down

to that level.

I think you better leave now.

You know, I'm sorry.

I thought you were a kindred spirit.

Kindred means two of a kind

sharing a great affinity.

- I know what kindred means.

- Shall we go for affinity?

You know, that is the first really

rotten thing you've said to me.

To make fun of somebody else's

intelligence or education or lack of,

that is somebody

I'd be very glad not to know.

I thought you were sad, weird.

- I didn't know you were cruel.

- I'm sorry.

It's just a cruelty waiting

to happen again. I want you to go.

Why do you want me to go? Really.

I want to be alone,

I want to watch my VCR,

eat ice cream, I want to go to sleep.

Come on, alone? Sooner or later

you're gonna have to deal with us.

There's just no two ways about it.

So why don't we just get it

over with? You're in the mood.

Tomorrow's Sunday, day off.

We'll sleep in. Let's talk.

- Right, I'm calling Tim.

- Tim?

No, Bobby.

He'll beat the sh*t out of you.

- Not yet.

- I'll open that window and scream.

In this city? Everybody's doing

the same thing, who'll hear you?

Get out!

I promise I will go

only I wanna make a call.

You know, this all should be so easy.

Why is it always so damn hard?

Hello? Midnight With Marlon?

Hello, Marlon. My name is Johnny

and I would like to know the name

of that piece of piano music

you were playing a minute ago

so I can buy the record

for my lady love,

whose name is Frankie, is that

a coincidence? Frankie and Johnny.

Debussy, Claude Debussy, right.

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