Roxanne Page #7

You're not having trouble

hearing me.

Well, your voice floats down.

But be careful.

One hard word from you

at that height kills me.

Give me your hat, give me your hat.

Oh, shut up.

Your voice sounds different.

Of course it's different.

I don't have to be careful anymore.

I'm protected by the night.

I can be myself, Roxanne.

- Oh, God, your name is like a knife.

- Sh*t.

- Stand where I can see you.

- No.

Why?

My voice, only my voice.

You don't need to see me.

Just listen to me.

I know I only have a minute here

to talk to you.

And I was just wondering

if what I wrote to you touched you.

It did.

It was eloquent.

Oh, no, not eloquent, just honest.

See, I am in orbit around you.

I'm suspended, weightless over you,

like the blue man in the Chagall...

...just hovering, hanging over you

in a delirious kiss.

Yesterday on the street,

I swore I heard your name.

I swore I heard someone say it.

And I turned,

and there was nobody there.

Just five birds rising off the ground.

And when their wings hit the air,

I heard your name again.

Just for that second,

I was one of them.

Pounding out your name, Roxanne.

Roxanne.

A word of two syllables

locked inside my head.

You see...

I am, and I will always be...

...the one who loved you

without limits.

What are you talking about?

It's too much.

Go on.

It's working. Go on, go on.

This is my whole life right now...

...standing here,

talking to you like this...

...saying things I've wanted to say

but couldn't.

Why couldn't you talk to me?

Because I was afraid

of having you laugh at me.

- That's so silly.

- No. No, no, not if you knew.

When you're reaching for a star,

there's a long way to fall.

I almost never let

this moment happen.

And now I feel sorry for people

for whom it never comes.

I love you.

I have breathed you in,

and I am suffocating.

I am crazy. I can't go on.

This is all too much.

I'm starting to feel a little dizzy.

And I'm starting

to feel a little drunk...

...because I have made you

tremble up there.

And you are trembling, aren't you?

Like a leaf on a tree.

- I wanna make love to you.

- Shut up, Chris.

What?

I was telling myself to shut up,

because this time, I've gone too far.

I'll tell you when you've gone too far.

She wants us.

Lookit, C.D., it's okay.

Sooner or later, you can do it.

Come on, come on.

Come on, C.D., do it, do it.

Roxanne,

don't think I don't know you.

Don't think

I haven't felt you beneath me.

And I know you've imagined it.

You have, haven't you?

Lying back into your bed with me.

I have.

There will never be

another tonight, Roxanne.

Why should we sip from a teacup

when we can drink from the river?

There's a tiny word.

It's not a noun, it's not a verb,

it's not an adjective.

I don't know what it is.

But if you said it to me tonight,

all this blackness would go away.

You and I would be connected

by a tunnel of light.

What is the word, Chris?

Yes.

Yes, Roxanne.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes, Chris.

Yes.

- Yeah. Yeah.

- Great. We did it, we did it.

C.D.

C.D., we were great.

I think I'm in love.

Oh, God, I did it.

Oh, sh*t, I did it.

Oh, God.

- Hey, it's two minutes to Dallas.

- Yeah.

Oh, C.D.

- Are you all right?

- Oh, C.D.

Are you all right?

Did you hurt yourself?

- Where am I?

- You're in Nelson.

Nelson?

Why, I'm home.

They brought me home. Bye.

- What day is it?

- Friday.

- Dallas is on.

- Friday?

Then it took no time.

It didn't exist in time.

- What?

- The spacecraft.

I was walking along. A spacecraft

landed right in front of me.

- Tell us.

- I read about this in the Enquirer.

- Did it have lights on it?

- Lights?

You never saw so many lights.

It was like Broadway.

Then this door opened.

A creature came out,

had big suckers on his palms.

He walked like this:

Then he took his palms,

put them right on my face.

Took me over to Roxanne's house.

He said they wanted to observe me.

- At Roxanne's house?

- That's where they are right now.

This is bullshit. We'll miss Dallas.

- Come on, girls, let's go.

- Okay.

- You think I'm nuts, don't you?

- No.

They wanted to ask me

about older women.

- Why?

- They wanted to have sex with them.

- Where?

- Here, here, right here in Nelson.

They wanted

to start a colony of supermen...

...who would have sex with older

women, because they said, I quote:

"They really know

what they're doing."

- We do?

- It's been so long.

Oh, girls, girls, do you actually believe

there are creatures from outer space...

...who wanna have sex

with older women?

- Let's go and check it out.

- Oh, dear, oh, dear.

Roxanne! Roxanne, help. Roxanne.

Testing.

Come on.

Hello.

Testing, testing.

God, I was nervous last night.

Uncomfortable, I don't know.

Believe me, I didn't say anything.

I'm just... I'm too dumb,

I mean, I'm too smart for that.

Yeah.

What do you mean, nervous?

How nervous?

I was real nervous. Yeah, nervous.

Real nervous?

Can I ask you

to stop the noise, please?

You mean, you know,

so nervous that you couldn't...

Hey, C.D.

Yeah, come on, you know,

it's embarrassing enough.

Yeah.

Okay, look,

I couldn't do it a third time.

Hello, this is the moment

we've all been waiting for.

Let Oktoberfest begin.

This town.

You can't get anything going.

Sh*t. I'm sorry.

- Hi.

- Hi.

- Looks nice.

- C.D. In?

- Yeah.

- Yeah.

C.D.?

- Yeah? Here.

- C.D.

- I'm catching a plane in 20 minutes.

- Why?

I got a call from the university.

I was right about the comet.

Oh, God, that's fantastic.

I wanted to tell you first.

You're the one person

who could appreciate it.

- Congratulations, that's great.

- Thanks.

You're famous.

- Is Chris around?

- Oh, no, I haven't seen him.

Well, maybe you can tell him

where I am.

I'm gonna be gone about a week.

- Here's my address.

- Okay.

- Ask him to write me.

- All right.

- And tell him to knock me over, okay?

- Yeah.

I was walking on air.

Now I'm walking on feathers

on pillows on air.

- Bye.

- Bye.

- Beer?

- Yeah.

- Draft?

- Yeah, a little bit.

It's okay. I'll just...

I can put on my sweater if I get...

That's really funny.

You can get so many guys in here

with no sense of humor.

No sense of humor at all.

I think a sense of humor's

really important, don't you?

Yeah, I think it's real important.

Okay.

One hand of low-ball for your drink.

What's low-ball?

You try and get the worst hand.

Okay, a low-ball for a highball.

You're a riot.

You could be a dealer in Vegas.

I know.

I went to Tahoe with a girlfriend.

- We're moving there in three days.

- Oh, yeah?

Yeah, yeah.

See, they like

young cocktail waitresses there...

...and you can make big money.

I heard one girl got a $10,000 tip

from a gambler that got lucky.

- Ten grand?

- Ten grand.

That'd be nice.

Then when I'm older,

I'll probably move to Reno...

...where they

like older cocktail waitresses.

Besides, it's only 60 miles away.

What do you got?

I got a nine, a seven, a five,

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