Passion Fish Page #5

she lives upstairs.

I don't know it she's happy.

No reason you would.

I just live with her

24 hours a day.

Was she expecting you?

No, I don't think

she really wants to see me.

It's nice to live

near the water.

Yeah. I suppose it is.

You can't teel anything...

in your bottom half?

That's the general idea.

Yeah, I telt that once.

Yeah, it started in my teet.

And then it moved to my knees.

And I remember thinking

how when...

it reached my heart,

I'd be dead.

What happened?

I just did some more of whatever

it was I was all messed up on...

and it shot me right past

into somewheres else.

Did she tinish with the detox?

Yes. I think so.

When she make up her mind

to do something...

you do not want to be

in her way, Chantelle.

I've noticed.

Well, you know, that's good.

she's keeping it straight.

I don't think I want to

wait around for her.

Don't mind me.

I just ain't ready to do this.

When you see Chantelle,

you tell her...

I'm sorry.

Who do I say came to call?

Bad news.

She'll know who you mean.

It's Chantelle

who don't have tlme tor me.

- Sugar.

- Yeah, you're right.

Only thing good here's breaktast,

and that's long over.

What are you doing here then?

Coftee machine busted

oveR at work.

Come on with me,

get you some real tood.

I have to be somewhere.

You got time to burn, girl.

That car of your white lady's sittin'

at the Bourgeois Brothers garage.

Them boys is slower

than a three-legged mule.

Can't tell you what to do

with the rest of your life, Chantelle...

but I know you don't want to be spending

no five hours ot it in here.

How's thAt for you?

It's tine.

That there on top

is court bouillon.

I made that myselF.

So, all the women up north so hard

to get next to, or is it just you?

ust me.

Hey, darling.

Albertine, say hi to Chantelle.

- Hello.

- Hi. Nice to meet you.

Albertine's my tirst girl.

She stays with me

most ot the summer.

You've got more?

Yeah, by Albertine's mama,

which was my first wiFe.

I had her and a boy, Henri.

Henri just got him

a scholarship to LSu.

Then with my second,

I had Cecile and Eugenie.

They live over

by Breaux Bridge now.

Don't see enough ot them.

Then, let's see.

- Rosalynn.

- Ah, Rosalynn, yeah.

I had Andre, Delia and Lorenzo.

Lorenzo just startin' up

school now.

Whose horse is this?

Man who gonna put his top stallion

on one ot my mares.

- You're gonna let him do that?

- I'm getting paid, darlin'.

Kind of blood line his stallion got,

cost me a fortune for that semen.

You gonna do that

just like in the cowboy movies?

I'm a blacksmith.

You're a black somethin',

all right.

- Are you following me?

- ust giving you some space, darlin'.

- I don't know how.

- Ain't nothing to it.

You have to show me how to do it.

Show me how!

No, don't be sorry.

ust don't be so suspicious.

The man been married 25 times,

got more kids than a field got corn.

How am I supposed to trust you?

I never asked you

to trust me, darlin'.

ust want you to be with me...

have some tun.

I already had enough fun

to last me a lifetime.

Will you spend the night with me?

You don't have to like it.

You probably live in the swamp,

right?

You got dead raccoons and sh*t

hanging on your house.

The Lord can't hate anyone.

How can He hate a small child?

That doesn't explain it.

He only...

Wow.

Oh, Reeves, I love you.

I'm sorry.

I made love to women

who wasn't satisfied betore...

but you're the tirst

that come out and cried about it.

No, it's just me.

I been wondering

what you taste like.

Yeah?

MoRe salt than sugar so f ar.

I'm sorry. I just don't think

it's gonna happen.

Not tonight.

Yeah.

Well...

you kind ot took the wind

out ot my sails anyway.

- Poor baby.

- I got teelings, too, you know.

Is that right?

IF I'm lyin', I'm dyln'.

Could I stay right here tonight?

Mm-hmm.

What's that name ot yours,

the real one?

ulysses.

Like that guy in the story that...

went to fight the Trojan wars

with an army.

And he's the only one

that make it back allve.

A survivor.

He was that.

May-Alice!

- Don't come in.

- Are you all right?

Shut the door first.

I'm printing.

- You get in late?

- It's morning.

Really?

I stayed all night.

- They didn't tinish the car.

- No sense of time in here.

I see you've been busy.

I don't need a sermon.

Do you think you can get

through a day without a drink?

- Sure.

- Okay.

Twenty-four houRs,

starting right now.

You have enough problems

with your liver and kldneys...

You're the addict, not me.

What do you mean by that?

He was here?

In the afternoon.

I hope he didn't scare you.

He wouldn't hurt anybody.

I'm glad to hear it.

He didn't seem too healthy.

Turn that light on, would you?

Shoot.

This is the only part

I can't remember how to do.

I cleaned up.

Finished detox a month ago.

Maybe the tixer's worn out.

Am I tired?

I lied to the agency.

I gave them my records

from back in Chicago...

and told them I'd been oft

in Europe for two years.

Luther had some restaurants.

He owned a blg car.

It was tun living high.

It was exciting.

And then we got to Freebasing...

and all ot it just fell away.

What stopped you?

I guess I didn't want to die.

I need this job.

You're not fired.

And...

I'm not gonna drink today.

I may as well go to bed.

How you teeling?

Like sh*t.

How did you do it?

At tirst I was in the hospital.

There's no plAce to score.

It's back in the real world

that's hard.

This isn't the real world.

I know.

People who been cutting your grass

all these years had any sense...

they'd have brought this inside.

You got you some rust.

A couple, three parts, though,

I could have her running.

Did Chantelle ask you

to tix this?

No, I just thought I'd do it.

Why, you live by the water,

you want a boat.

so how's your Daddy

these days?

He's dead.

Oh.

Yeah, he started him a fight

in Smokeys over at the Sabin Pass.

Couple ot roughnecks put him away

in a parking lot.

That's the way he lived it.

I'll have her running someday,

I'll take your triend and you out...

show you the neighborhood.

sure.

You never did

like it much down here.

The place is all right.

I just had problems with

who people expected me to be.

You okay? You seem a little upset

about something.

I'm tine.

I'm trying to...

I've started a diet.

It makes you cranky,

raises your blood sugar...

and all that.

so did you ever get away trom here?

Drafted.

Sent me to the Philippines,

guard ammunition on the way to the war.

All ot us are real proud

of how you did on the TV.

sure.

You know, I never did

see your program.

Arlene won't have it in the house.

A critic.

No television, no radio,

no liquor, no card playing.

Can't slng a song

unless the Lord's name's in it.

That's serious.

She took rellgion between

the second and third babies.

Her people were like that, but she'd

Run otf trom them when I met her.

she got the kids

in it with her now.

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