The Basketball Diaries Page #5

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424

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What are you talking about?

What are you writing?

425

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Here.

426

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Ooh. Um...

427

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Ma, I'm not really that

hungry this morning, alright?

428

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- Come on. You got to eat something.

- I know...

429

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Where you going?

430

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I'm going to shoot

some hoops.

431

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Sometimes I feel like

something's chasing me,

432

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like there's some whacko

on a roof somewhere

433

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who could snuff me out

at any moment.

434

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And I feel this horrible fear.

Will I have time to finish--

435

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the poems breaking loose

in my head?

436

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Hey, white boy,

437

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you ready

for your beating?

438

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Don't let your mouth get you into

something your ass can't handle.

439

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I'll shoot you for it.

440

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So it's going to be

like that, huh?

441

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I...

442

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don't think so.

443

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Yeah!

444

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All right,

so you made one.

445

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Big deal.

You made one shot.

446

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Make another.

447

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j& The days are muzzled

in a vibe j&

448

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j& I swing back

from time to time j&

449

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j& There's a Camaro,

rusty red j&

450

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j& That all

my best friends drive in j&

451

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j& Can you smell

the summer air? j&

452

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j& Take me where

they left the light on j&

453

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j& Getting close,

almost there j&

454

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j& If that fuzzy silver badge j&

455

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j& Don't greet us there j&

456

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j& My head's dizzy,

and I'm taking... j&#

457

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Yo, Jim! What's the score?

Come on. We got to go.

458

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They don't keep score

in this game.

459

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Jim, come on.

We're losing the sun.

460

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He's being a dick. You want me

to put a charge in his ass?

461

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Whatch this.

462

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Oh, look it, right here...

463

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Jim's secret diary

he's always writing in.

464

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Bet you he wrote

some sh*t about me.

465

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Oh, right here.

466

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"Spring... Mickey."

467

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Hey, there I am, Jim says.

468

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"Mickey takes out a bottle

of carbonic cleaning fluid

469

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and suggests we do

a little sniffing to get high."

470

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Whoo!

471

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"After four deep whiffs,

we're sailing someplace else."

472

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Mickey,

what are you doing?

473

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"Bells ringing

through my ears,

474

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little lights

flashing through my eyes."

475

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Mickey, put that down,

all right?

476

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"I pictured myself

477

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"paddling across a river

with black water,

478

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"only the canoe was going

backwards instead of forwards,

479

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"with clouds that had faces.

Laughing, spooky, fun-house laughs..."

480

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- Give it back, alright?

- What is that sh*t?

481

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Why do you have to be

such a schmuck, Mickey?

482

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What are you

talking about?

483

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Don't you ever touch that again.

It's private.

484

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What's your problem?

485

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I'm... I'm sorry.

486

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He's writing about me,

I can't read about it? Jesus!

487

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Hey, Jim, come on.

We're gone.

488

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Yo, we got a cab!

489

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Hey, cabby! Hey, swami!

490

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So, Shakespeare,

491

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you going to finish the game?

492

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C'mon, Reggie, you know

this game never ends.

493

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See you later,

all right?

494

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Every crowd has its little games

to prove if you're a punk or not.

495

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My cousin in Jersey

plays chickie,

496

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which is two cars

heading towards each other

497

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at about 80 miles per hour.

498

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First driver to swerve

out of the way is, of course, chicken.

499

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In Brooklyn,

500

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they make you press

a lit cigarette into your arm

501

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and have it burn all the way

down to the filter

502

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without the slightest flinch.

503

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Us, Manhattan boys,

504

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we jump off cliffs

into the Harlem River,

505

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which is literally shitty, because half a

million toilets flush into it every day.

506

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Whoo-oo!

507

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[Whistles]

508

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Yeah!

509

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Oooh!

510

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Yeah!

511

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Hey, y'all, I carried the clothes up,

512

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but I ain't carrying them down.

513

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Peepee, this is you...

514

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all 33 pounds of you,

gone with the wind.

515

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Wow. That's

a long way down.

516

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Devil's toe is no big deal.

We've all done it a million times.

517

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I never done it.

518

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You never did it?

519

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Pedro, you never

do nothing.

520

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You know who was awesome

on this rock?

521

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Bobby. That kids would do

back flips off this rock.

522

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Hey, Mickey.

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