Kill Your Darlings Page #5

Christ, Allen, please

don't get involved.

I have to be.

I'm helping him write his defence.

David was my friend.

And he's dead.

And did Lucien tell you how he died?

He might not have wanted

you to know, Allen.

He tied David up.

Put stones in his

pockets to weigh him down,

and then dragged him into the Hudson.

What?

He was alive, Allen,

until Lucien made him drown.

Who are you? Is he

part of this business?

Leave him alone, Dad.

I paid your bail.

Don't talk to me like that.

YES, sir.

The car leaves in five minutes.

The libertine circle has come to an end.

Go back to the beginning.

"Cook's County Hospital of Chicago. "

"David Kammerer. "

He would leave me alone in the house.

- I was gonna die there.

- No, you weren't.

- Yeah, I know it.

- No, Mom. Stop.

Hey. I'm okay now.

I'm your mother and I'm okay.

But you're not.

I'm in over my head.

Someone I know killed a man.

And...

I don't know what to do.

He wants my help and I don't

know if I should give it to him.

I don't know if ifs right.

It's just a mess.

You let him go.

- What?

- Don't help him.

- I can't, Mom. He's my best friend.

- Listen to me.

The most important thing your

father ever did was fail me.

You understand?

He loved you.

And the truth is, once,

you loved him back.

- What about what I need?

- But the secret ate away at you.

I was a kid, and you dragged

me into your perverted mess.

So in Chicago, you

tried to kill yourself

How can you say that?

You know that's not true.

He rescued you.

I will never give up on us.

He saved your life.

You're pathetic.

You needed him as much as he needed you.

Now I know how you felt.

When?

When you wanted to die.

Do it.

Do it.

Some things,

once you've loved them,

become yours forever.

And if you try to let them go

they only circle back and return to you.

They become part of who you are.

"Or they destroy you. "

You can't show this to anyone.

- Then tell the truth, Lu.

- You weren't even there.

It's your truth. It's fiction.

You wanted him gone,

too. You sent him to me.

Please. You'll kill me with that.

Allen. No.

Allen! Don't. No!

Don't!

Allen Ginsberg.

He'll be with you in a

minute. Please have a seat.

Mr Ginsberg, he's ready for you.

Mr Ginsberg?

How did you expect us to react to this?

No, please, tell me.

Professor Steeves says that

you submitted it as your final.

Well, then let me tell you.

It's smutty and it's absurd.

But you finished it.

You have taken incompletes in two

classes and you are on academic probation.

There are rules that you agreed to

upon acceptance into this university

and you managed to break and

you just keep breaking them.

You don't seem to have much

respect for this institution.

So, you may either

retract this fiction as your final

or you may choose to be expelled.

What will it be?

Fine.

Consider me expelled.

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Another lover hits the universe.

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And like all lovers and sad people,

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