The Hero Page #5

Give me a chance to write another chapter.

I remember holding hands

with you on this beach.

I held up our hands and I said,

"Your hand is old, and it has wrinkles."

Then I turned our hands over and I said,

"My hand is new and doesn't

have any wrinkles."

(WAVES BREAKING)

I thought you left because

I hurt your feelings.

And I believed that for years.

I'm so sorry.

(MUSIC)

It really is beautiful out here.

Yes, it is.

(WAVES CRASHING)

(CREAKING)

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

(SOFT MUSIC)

(WAVES CRASHING)

(SOFT MUSIC)

(DOOR OPENING)

(PHONE RINGING)

WOMAN:
Dr. Friedburg's office.

I'd like to make an appointment.

Please hold.

("MORNING MOOD" PLAYING SOFTLY)

(MUSIC GROWS LOUDER)

- (MUSIC STOPS ABRUPTLY)

- WOMAN:
Thank you for holding.

You said you'd like to make

an appointment, is that right?

JEREMY:
This is all you need?

That's it.

(GRUNTS)

JEREMY:
Hey, I got the Ultimate

Buster Keaton on Blu-ray.

Wanna stick around?

We could order some Chinese chicken salads.

Yeah, I've got some stuff I'm working on.

Next time, though.

Yeah.

How've you been feeling?

Oh, I meant to tell you.

I found some episodes of Cattle Drive

online last night.

I watched a bunch of them.

How were they?

- Amazing.

- (LEE LAUGHS)

You remember that scene we had?

You catch me stealing a horse, and

you're about to beat the sh*t out of me,

and I tell you I'm an orphan,

and you take pity on me.

Then in the next episode,

they f***ing hang me,

and that sends you on

a revenge killing spree.

My death was the whole

reason for that show, man.

Hey there.

Hey.

LEE:
How's it going?

Happy birthday. (CHARLOTTE LAUGHS)

I got you something.

Hold on.

- (LEE LAUGHS)

- Yeah.

Did you ever read it?

'Cause it was under the bed.

You know, I used to wanna be a poet.

Like, that was what I wanted to be more

than anything in the world.

You sit down, because you're

gonna listen to this poem.

"Dirge Without Music,"

by Edna St. Vincent Millay.

"I am not resigned to the shutting away

"of loving hearts in the hard ground.

"So it is, and so it will be,

for so it has been,

"time out of mind:

"into the darkness they go,

"the wise and the lovely.

"Crowned with lilies and laurel they go;

"but I am not resigned.

"Lovers and thinkers,

into the earth with you.

"Be one with the dull,

the indiscriminate dust.

"A fragment of what you felt,

of what you knew,

"a formula, a phrase remains...

but the best is lost.

(MUSIC)

"The answers quick and keen, the honest look,

"the laughter, the love...

"They are gone.

"They are gone to feed the roses.

Elegant and curled is the blossom.

"Fragrant is the blossom. I know.

"But I do not approve.

"More precious was the light in your eyes

than all the roses in the world.

"Down, down, down into

the darkness of the grave,

"Gently they go, the beautiful,

the tender, the kind;

"Quietly they go, the intelligent,

"the witty, and the brave.

"I know.

But I do not approve. And I am not resigned."

(SOFT MUSIC)

LEE:
The new sweet and spicy

Lonestar Barbecue sauce,

the perfect partner for your ribs.

The new sweet and spicy

Lonestar Barbecue sauce,

the perfect partner for your ribs.

MAN:
That was great, Lee.

Can you do one more?

(MUSIC)

(BALLAD PLAYING)

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