Paper Moon Page #4

- Maybe I wiII!

- Stop standing around checking on me.

I ain't about to Ieave some poor chiId

stranded. I got scrupIes, too.

- You know what that is, scrupIes?

- No.

But if you've got them, it's a sure

bet they beIong to somebody eIse.

And his name ain't Frank! It's FrankIin!

(BELL DINGS - CHEERING )

(CAROUSEL MUSIC )

Hey there, I wondered where you got to.

Where's your pa?

- Is my picture ready?

- Sure. Excuse me, foIks.

Sit back in the moon there.

I'II be right with you.

Here it is. Hey now, I thought you were

going to sit in the moon with your pa?

He ain't my pa!

Hi! Get ready! SmiIe!

HoId it, hoId it!

BeautifuI.

I don't want you smoking

in the car tomorrow.

- What?

- I didn't say nothing. I'm Iistening to you.

There'II be two extra peopIe riding with us

and one don't Iike smoke.

- What extra person?

- What?

- What extra person?

- A Iady I'm taking to Topeka.

- I didn't know we was going there.

- You don't know everything.

What's the Iady's name?

Miss DeIight. Miss Trixie DeIight.

She's a reaI Iady!

I'm just giving her a ride!

That's what you're aIways taIking about,

heIping other peopIe out!

(WATER SPLASHING IN BASIN)

Don't drop nothing, Imogene.

Take care of those breakabIes.

Yes, Miss Trixie.

Morning! Car is right over here.

You better ride in the back.

Come on, lmogene, you don't want

to keep these nice people waiting,

(TRIXIE CHATTERS AND LAUGHS )

Then I danced in TuscaIoosa and the

Mayor said the nicest things about me.

The newspaper ran a big photo on me.

I got a scrapbook on me from aII over.

TeII him about the time that man tried

to crack your head with a bottIe.

Imogene, you siIIy oId thing.

You know that's not true.

He wasn't going to hit me with no bottIe.

He was horsing around.

Ask me nice and I'II teII you about that.

TeII him about the time

you aImost got thrown in jaiI.

I don't understand it, Daddy. This IittIe

baby has to go winky-tinky aII the time.

- Don't worry. We'II stop here for dinner.

- We just stopped for her at Iunch.

Right, and now

we're stopping for dinner. Come on.

I ain't hungry.

# The whole day through

# Just a little song,,, #

- Want one?

- OK.

- How oId are you?

- I don't know, 1 5. Why?

- Just asking. Where are you from?

- Nowhere.

- You've got to be from somewheres.

- Down by Troy, I guess.

How Iong you work for her?

Ain't kept count. A year, maybe.

How oId you be?

Nine. She reaIIy do aII that dancing?

If you want to caII it dancing.

AII she do is waggIe her hips

and shake her behind.

How come she Ieave that job?

The boss try to make her put out

for his friends.

- She don't put out for free.

- She put out much?

Like a gum machine. Drop something in

and she'II put something out.

- How much she charge?

- Most she can get.

But she aIways asks for $5.

She ain't putting out for your pa, though.

Says she's going to get aII she can first.

He say he was my pa?

I heard him mumbIing something Iike

he didn't want to taIk about it. Ain't he?

I'm with him, ain't I?

How do you come to be with her?

She promised to give me $4 every week.

She ain't gave me nothing!

Except a nickeI or dime.

- Why don't you quit?

- Quit?

How I'm going to quit? And what if I do?

Ain't got no money to get home to Mom.

And what if I do get home?

They got hard times as it is.

My mama say, ''Go work for a white

Iady, she'II take good care of you.''

Know what I think? You know that

white speck on top of chicken doo-doo?

That's the kind of white she is.

She's just Iike that IittIe white speck

on top of oId chicken sh*t!

I just Iove it, Iove it, Iove it!

AII this white. It is absoIuteIy the

proper thing for my kind of appearance.

You need a new dress. The right dress

makes aII the difference in a face,

especiaIIy since you've got

the right kind of bone structure.

Oh my, oh my, Daddy,

but wouIdn't you Iook handsome

behind the wheeI of that?

Everything is in the bone structure.

A person can teII his whoIe Iife

by his bone structure.

I tried pushing her out of a window.

(TRIXIE) I think there are bugs aII over.

I just hope there's no snakes round here.

I think we ought to go now, you know?

Thank you.

Now, hurry... Oh!

Come on, get those things in there.

Don't break anything, either.

(CRASH)

- Let's go!

- Baby's got to go winky-tinky.

Don't worry.

- Hey!

- (CROCKERY CRASHES )

Come on, we're ready.

- Come on!

- I ain't ready!

You don't Iook busy. Come on.

- I ain't coming!

- You Iisten here...

- No, I won't Iisten here!

- What's up with you?

I want to sit in front.

How come we ain't working no more?

We're on vacation. Miss DeIight and me

are in front because we're grown-ups.

That's where grown-ups sit!

ChiIdren do not teII grown-ups

what to do with their Iives.

She ain't my grown-up

and I ain't sitting no more in the back.

- Not for no cow!

- Keep your voice down!

Miss DeIight ain't no cow.

She has a high schooI dipIoma!

And she's got to go to the bathroom,

so get to the car!

She's aIways in the bathroom!

She must have a bIadder Iike a peanut.

I ain't getting back in that car

tiII she's out of it!

(INAUDIBLE)

What's up? Daddy says you're

wearing a sad face. That ain't good.

How wouId you Iike a coIouring book?

You Iike Mickey the Mouse?

Oh! Son of a b*tch!

Come down to the car and Iet's aII

be friends. You see me smiIe?

Let's see you smiIe Iike Aunt Trixie.

Come on down with MademoiseIIe.

Kiddo, I understand how you feeI.

You don't have to worry.

One of these days you're going to be just

as pretty as MademoiseIIe, maybe more.

You aIready got bone structure.

When I was your age, I didn't have any.

Took me years to get bone structure.

Don't think that's not important.

Nobody started to caII me MademoiseIIe

tiII I was 1 7 and getting bone structure.

At your age, I was skinny.

Never thought I'd have nothing up here.

You're going to have them up there, too.

TeII you what, want me to show you

how to use cosmetics?

I'II Iet you put on my earrings.

You'II see how pretty you're going to be.

I'II show you how to make up your eyes

and your Iips.

I'II see to it you get a IittIe bra,

or something.

Now, pick your ass up, sit in the back,

and cut out the crap, you understand?

You're going to ruin it, ain't you?

I don't want to wipe you out and I don't

want you wiping me out, you know?

So I'm going to IeveI with you, OK?

With me, it's just a matter of time.

I don't know why,

but somehow I just don't manage

to hoId on reaI Iong.

So, if you wait it out a IittIe,

it'II be over, you know?

Even if I want a feIIa, somehow or

other I manage to get it screwed up.

Maybe I'II get a new pair of shoes,

a nice dress, a few Iaughs.

Times are hard.

If you fooI around on the hiII up here,

then you don't get nothing,

I don't get nothing, he don't get nothing.

So, how about it, honey?

Just for a IittIe whiIe?

Let oId Trixie sit up front with her big tits.

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