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-- Im not afraid of snakes. There was a snake-handling bunch where we spent the summers. I used to go to their meetings now and again, do a little handling.

-- As do I. Shes brave.

-- Mornings. I send out a lot of postcards.

-- I grayed it up myself. Sets off the orange.

-- Scarcely had I reloaded when a black rhinoceros, a female as it proved, stood drinking at the water.

-- Another bright glorious day. How do you feel? Have you tried to get a drink on one of these new trains? Its as easy as pie. Have you got anything we could put over the windows? Tarpaper or maybe some boards? Do you want to hear "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"? Is there any more of this red?

-- Im frightened. But maybe not tomorrow.

-- Well maybe you could talk to them or something.

-- They played "One Oclock Jump," "Two OClock Jump," "Three OClock Jump," and "Four OClock Jump." They were very good. I saw them on television. Theyre all dead now.

-- Less and less. I have a smoke detector and tickets to everywhere. I have a guardian angel blind from birth and a packet of Purple-top White Globe turnip seeds, for the roof.

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-- Im frightened. By flutes and flower girls and sirens. We get a lot of sirens because of the hospital. By coffee, dead hanging plants, people who think too fast, vestments and bells.

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-- Humility is barefoot, Lewdness is physically attractive and holds a sprig of colewort, the Hour is a wheel, and Courage is strangling a lion, by shoving a mailed fist down its throat.

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-- But when I get to all these strange places they seem empty. Nobody on the streets and Im not used to that. Their restaurants all have the same things: filet, surf n turf, prime rib. Spend a few days in a hotel and then check out, leaving a dollar or two for the maids.

-- What are you afraid of?

-- Put-on anger. A technique of managers.

-- Say youre frightened.

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-- Think we can get some of that fine grant money?

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-- It is this that the new portraits are intended to celebrate.

-- Get some Vitamin E. I take eight hundred units.

-- So I decided it was about time we got gay. I changed the record, that helped, and fiddled with the lights --

-- Well thats one thing I want to stay away from. Flight, I mean. Too much like defeat.

-- What scares you?

-- Jugs and jugs. Two weeks would do it, two weeks in a VW Rabbit.

-- Say youre frightened. Admit it.

-- The love of gain is insatiable. This is true.

-- Youre afraid of it?

-- Then, out of another chute, the bride appeared, caracoling and sunfishing across the arena.

-- Say youre frightened.

-- Timid as a stag. Theyve got a meter wired to my sheet, I dont know what it measures. I get a dollar a night. When I wake suddenly, I notice its there. I watch my hand aging, sing a little song.

-- That scare you?

-- A fine person. Took the Fire Department exam and passed it. Thats just one example.

-- After a while, darkness, and they give up the search.

-- Think we can get us some of that good per diem?

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-- Yes, I was. Stood there smiling. I thought, Those are tight pants, how kind of her. Wondered if she was orange underneath. What shall we do? Call up Mowgli? Ask him over? Do you like tongue? Sliced? With mushrooms? Is it a private matter? Is Scriabin as smart as he looks? This mans a fool -- why are you talking to him? Yes, his clothes are interesting, but inside are dull bones. -- This gray light, I dont see how you stand it. -- A firestorm of porn all around -- orange images, dunes and deserts. Bursts of quarreling through the walls. I wonder who the people are? I tried that Cuisine Minceur, didnt like it. Oh, it looks pretty --

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-- Want to see my collection of bass clarinets? Want to see my collection of painters ears? This gray light, I dont see how you stand it.

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-- Say youre not frightened. Inspire me.

-- Indeed, do I still live?

-- Say youre frightened. Confess.

-- Behavior in general a wonderful sea, in which we can swim, or leap, or stumble.

-- If you decide to run for it a bus is better. No ones seated facing you. Theyve got bigger windows now, and the drivers are usually reliable.

-- Distant, distant, distant. Thanks for calling Jim it was good to talk to you.

-- She got out of bed and, doing a cute little walk, walked to the bathroom. I dreaded the day I would see her real walk.

-- Im not afraid of crime, theres got to be crime, its the manner or mode that -- I mean if they could just take it out of your bank account, by punching a few buttons or something. . .

-- Theres the sunset gun. That means we can loosen up and get friendly. Think we can get any of that government money?

-- Take a picture of this exceptionally dirty window. Its grays. I think I can get you a knighthood, I know a guy. What about the Eternal Return?

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-- Call up Bomba the Jungle Boy? Get his input?

-- Say youre frightened.

-- Searching the room for someone to go to bed with. What if she agrees?

-- Naw that doesnt scare me.

-- Hear that? Thats wolf talk. Not bad is it?

-- What are you afraid of? Mornings, noons, or nights?

-- I knew her. I was very fond of her. I am very fond of her. I wish them well.

-- Not afraid of hurricanes because we used to have them, where I lived, not afraid of tarantulas, used to have them too, they jump, have to chop them up with a hoe, long-handled hoe as opposed to the stoop hoe, by preference.

-- Nature in general not seen as antipathetic. Nor are other people, except for those who want to slap your ears back without first presenting their carefully reasoned, red-white-and-blue threats.

-- Turkeying around trying to get situated.

-- Well thats one thing I want to stay away from. You can get mad instead. I got mad, really got mad.

-- Going home.

-- Thats happened to me several times. You just have to be honest.

-- No, thank you.

-- Let me give you a hint: Find me one animal that is capable of personal friendship.

-- How did the party end?

-- Not afraid of the mail, not so much as I used to be, all those threatening letters, I just say sticks and stones, sticks and stones, see the triage nurse.

-- My hand scares me. Its not well.