Taking Off Page #5

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You want to take the first?

- I don't wanna be first.

- Lynn?

Anybody but me, you!

Ok.

I knew it, I knew I would lose.

I don't wanna play, i'm gonna lose.

Well, c'est la vie.

- Ok!

- Ok what?

Come on, you gotta take something off.

She's gotta take something off.

Yeah, you have take something off.

The rules of Texas one card showdown

is that you have to take something off.

- I did.

- What did you take off?

- My shoes.

- Hey, she did! Look!

- You gotta take off...

- Hey those are beautiful shoes!

- Thank you.

- This is Texas one card showdown!

- Throw them behind you.

- That's Rhode Island showdown.

They would lynch you in Texas.

You're beautiful!

- Bravo!

- Again!

Go ahead.

- Who is it now?

- Not me!

Larry.

Over!

Again!

Everybody clap along now!

I want everybody

to clap along!

He's got the whold

world in his hands...

He's got all the lost

children in his hands...

I like this game!

He's got you and

me brother in his hands...

He's got the whole

world in his hands...

My compliments to the chef.

He's got you and

me sister in his hands...

He's got the whole

world in his hands...

He's got everybody in his hands...

He's got the whole

world in his hands......

It's me! You're gonna

let me play this game?

You got a dirty laugh lady.

Oh come on,

you can't sit like that.

Seriously, several doctors have

told me it's very bad for your spine.

You're a bad man.

Cheers!

She's wonderful you know!

- Come on, draw.

- I can even reach for it.

I didn't lose this time!

Okay, oh see.

He lost again.

I don't know, he hasn't got

anything to take off. He's naked!

Okay Larry get up! You don't

have anything to take off, right?

I think that we

should be going.

Yeah I guess that

means we better.

Let's go Annie.

Yeah Ok, I guess that

means we better...

- I guess we better be going.

- Thank you...

for taking us into

your home here.

Watch your trousers there.

It was... thanks very much.

Annie!

It was really a terrific

evening wasn't it Ben?

- Are you ready?

- Yes.

Oh, I have to get...

You know that marijuana's really

amazing. The way it affected...

I'm so high.

Night.

Don't you think we

ought to talk to her?

I just don't...

I don't wanna argue.

I don't wanna argue.

Are you alright?

We were worried about you.

Where were you?

Were you with a boy?

You were with a

boy weren't you?

Do we know him?

Don't you think we

should get to know him?

Don't you think we

should meet him?

You tell him that we would like to meet

him and you invite him to dinner here.

And if he's not a

coward, he'll come.

Do you understand?

This is Jamie,

this is my father.

Come in.

Hello Jamie.

I'll get your mother.

Come in, sit down.

Lynn...

There's nothing to worry about.

Don't cry.

So you're a...

you're a musician huh?

What do you play?

He plays the organ and the bass

and the piano. And he sings.

Ah, Really?

He writes his own music too.

You make any money at it?

How much?

Last year I made $290,000.

What did you say?

$290,000, before taxes.

It's a very funny thing.

You see alot of things that

a government are doing,

it makes you kinda angry.

So you write some songs about it.

You try to reach as

many people as you can.

In the end you end up paying for

those very same things that

made you angry in the first place.

I guess I accept contradictions.

But I live on a

very frugal budget.

I'm saving up so I can buy an

intercontinental ballistic missile.

I think that we ought to change

the balance of power a little bit.

Maybe after dinner you'll

sing something for us?

- He didn't bring his instruments.

- Well, he can use the piano.

I really don't know.

I'd like to hear something,

I really would, i'm interested.

I really don't know if I could, under the

circumstances, get my rocks off.

Take my hand,

i'm a stranger in paradise,

all lost in a wonderland,

a stranger in paradise.

If I stand starry eyed,

there's a danger in paradise,

for mortals like who stand beside,

an angel like you.

Feeling sore and I saw

the world is spinning.

Let us fight no more,

carry with a tide.

And i've been lost,

find a new beginning,

kill ourselves no more,

were on our own side.

And the world is happy,

for we've joined along,

we're alone no more,

we're a part of their soul...

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