The Pope of Greenwich Village Page #8

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Why the hell did Bed Bug

give us this one anyway?

It's a favor, I think.

"You can have the Irish," he told me.

"Keep it in the family."

F***ing humps.

They're all alike.

They think they're real cute.

- There. It's over there.

- We got him here.

Charlie... this is not easy for me.

Our baby needs

a good start in life, Charlie.

So I don't feel guilty about taking

the shoebox full of money for the baby.

I've left you $5,000.

With $45,000, our baby

will have a good chance in life.

It should be a comfort you to know that.

I've been thinking about what

my life would be like, living with you.

The truth is, Charlie,

I can't go through life

living with someone I could never trust.

- Paulie, what happened?

- Charlie...

- they took my thumb, man.

- Who did? Who did?

It hurts so much.

- Paulie, what happened?

- The Bed Bug took my thumb, man.

Oh, no. No. Jesus Christ.

I'm gonna f***ing kill him!

No, Charlucc'.

That guy's a f***ing psycho, man.

He'll chop you up.

- Paulie...

- Oh, man, it hurts so much.

- Did they give you anything for this?

- Yeah.

- What did they give you?

- Yeah.

They gave me... they gave me this stuff.

They gave me this stuff at the hospital.

But I took all of it.

I've been taking it all day.

- You took all of this?

- It ain't done a f***ing thing!

- You took all of this?

- I took it all, man.

- Charlie, I didn't do nothing, man.

- Paulie, what can I do for you?

- What can I do for you?

- It was my life, man.

I didn't wanna give the poor bastard up,

but it was my life, Charlie.

Barney ain't family.

I don't owe him that much.

You gave Barney up?

What about me, Paulie?

Paulie, I'm family.

Did they press you for me?

Yeah. Yeah, they... they pressed me.

They pressed me hard.

They took my thumb, Charlie!

Paulie.

What the hell happened here, man?

Look at that chair, man.

What the hell happened here, Charlie?

She walked out.

She took the money and she left.

That twat robbed ya?

My God, what did you do, Charlie?

I didn't do anything, Paulie.

I didn't hit her. I didn't do nothing.

You can't do that, man.

You don't abuse 'em once in a while,

they'll sh*t all over ya.

I don't mean that you walk around

morning to night

whacking 'em upside the head

like someone from the other side,

but you gotta terrorize 'em once

in a while just to keep 'em in line.

I mean, like, you know,

sometimes when they embarrass ya

in front of your friends,

you whack 'em with the backhand.

Not out in the middle of the room

like some f***ing animal, you know,

but nice, in the bedroom, you know?

Ba-boom. Ow.

What am I? Some kind of a**hole?

Ba-boom. Another one. Oh.

Sh*t. What is this?!

Some kinda f***ing joke?!

You get your coat on fast,

and you don't say good night to nobody.

You understand me? Huh? Huh?

That's to keep 'em humble.

When you don't let 'em say

good night to nobody,

they walk out

looking at the f***ing floor.

Charlie!

They took my thumb!

Paulie. Paulie.

Bed Bug, I'm gonna f***ing kill you,

God damn it!

Paulie... Paulie... Paulie.

The motherfucking...

Paulie. Oh, Paulie.

I know... Paulie...

It's better if you don't know.

Here.

Here's $1,000.

I'll send you $200 every week.

Nora, don't fall apart on me now, huh?

- Huh?

- How did you let this happen to you?

Oh, how did I let my whole

life happen to me?

Why does it never work out right for us?

Why, Barney?

Why does it never work out right?

Nora, maybe I wasn't

the smartest kid on the block, huh?

I did the best I could, huh?

For the three of us.

I gotta go.

- Whoa, whoa, whoa.

- Aw, Jesus Christ.

All right. Here.

I was having a bad dream.

How do you feel? Huh?

How's your hand?

I don't know yet.

You eat some of this.

You'll feel better.

- Absolutely.

- Okay.

Here you go.

Yuck.

- What's the matter?

- It's canned, man.

- It's good for you.

- Yeah.

White bread?

No wonder these WASPs

got no color, huh, Charlie?

Hey, maybe she...

she outgrew me, you know? I mean...

These WASPs, you know,

they outgrow people.

Yeah, right.

Our mothers was right, Charlucc'.

You really gotta stick

with your own kind, you know?

- Yeah.

- Yeah.

Charlie...

you know what really busts my balls?

I gotta go to work for that maniac.

I gotta be a God damn

coffee boy in the club.

- How you doing?

- I'm good.

- All right?

- Absolutely.

Three sugars, Eddie?

Close the door.

Sit down.

No, sit over here.

Do you ever listen to tapes, Paulie?

Them, uh...

tapes that everybody sees all over?

I've been thinking

how you and that Irishman

did that piece of work up there.

It was you and him, no?

Barney. That's his name.

Barney.

This Irishman who you gave

two-thirds the split to?

- Are you comfortable, Paulie?

- Yeah, yeah, I'm comfortable.

Tell me exactly how you handled it.

Who carried the stuff upstairs?

Who watched the window?

I wanna know

each detail of who did what.

Well, uh... me and the Irishman,

you know, the two of us, we had...

Two?

Not three?

Two.

Take it easy. Don't rush.

We're gonna go through this

a couple of times.

Hello?

Diane?

Diane, is that you?

Luna, luna, luna, lu

I'll be waiting here for you

I live by moonlight

So give me moonlight

Who knows? I soon might

Give you my heart

Luna, luna, luna, lu

Hey, Paulie, buddy.

Hey, where are you going?

Take a hike, a**hole.

What was so important we had to

stop off at the apartment for that?

I got a phone call from Chicago,

from Barney.

That was his end of it.

50,000?

You just mailed $50,000

to some Irish retard?

Hey, don't be so f***ing selfish,

all right, Paulie?

I mean, come on,

I thought about this the whole week.

Had to do the right thing.

Charlie, some thief

is gonna hand the kid a rattle,

and he's gonna give him 50 large.

Sh*t. He sure as hell ain't gonna

go out and party with it, Charlie.

- You're a selfish f***, you know that?

- "The right thing."

That's for you.

Grab yourself a beer after work.

Thanks.

- What did you do?

- What did I do? I tipped the guy.

- Big shot.

- Charlie, I only gave him a buck, man.

I mean, what is so terrible?

The poor victim stands in a little

closet breathing car fumes all day.

The job's a sentence.

Gotta throw 'em a beanie once just

to make their day, know what I mean?

Charlie, we made his day. His week.

Big f***ing shot you are, Paulie.

Why the hell do you wanna

go to the grandstand?

The clubhouse is nicer.

Hey, a**hole, watch out, will ya?

The grandstand's

where the regular guys are.

The clubhouse is full of phonies.

I thought we was going

to the grandstand.

No, man.

The clubhouse is the only place

to really see a race from.

You stay in the grandstand

and you're with every garbage can

walking the street.

Every garbage can walking the...

You'll wind up with crabs

over there, you know?

Hey, Charlie, that's on me, man.

The midnight flight for Miami.

We're gonna make money here today,

then we're gonna party on the beach.

We're gonna live like a couple of sports

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