"Okay." "Give him three bucks." "I don't have any money." "Pammy." "Give him three bucks!" "I'm a pauper." "Leave me alone." "I'm a fucking peasant." "You know?" "I came here off the street." "You fucking come here and expect me to pay for it?" "No." "I didn't expect anyone." "I expected God to pay for me." "Who do you think?" "Bozo?" "I don't fucking know." "I was never taught about money." "Until I was about seven... that's when I left my father." "You have money in your purse?" "I don't carry a purse." "Dear." "Sorry sir." "It's just a matter of using people." " Okay." "Get out!" " No." "I want someone to come and pick me up." "Come on." "Pammy..." "Frank." "What's up..." "Let's not get upset about three dollars?" "I didn't even think you would know." "Will you get the fuck out of here?" "Don't act like that with me." "Act with love." "Do what thou wilt." "Get out." "God damn it!" "I nearly dropped my watch." "Come on!" "Denny." "Can I phone you back?" "I'm busy." "I have all these people coming." "Okay?" "We're going to need twice as much ice." "Forget it for now." "I have to get Jackie." "When is she supposed to be in?" "Right now." "I'll call John." "I wonder what she is like now I haven't seen her for so long." "Hey." "Let's go for a ride." "Come on." "Come on." "We could be friends." "I'll take you to a funny place!" "Come on." "I've got a really big engine." "Come on." "Hey?" "Okay." "Watch this." "You were really going to hit me." "Let's go up to the loft and have a game of wall ball?" "Great." "But is what's-her-name there?" "No." "She split." "Eventually everything gets found." "Yes." "But two and a half hours is a long time." "But you're home now." "Jackie." "Yes." "It's great to be back." "Jackie Holden has class." "Money..." "She's going to take us uptown." "It will be like the old days." "Frankie and Bozo." "Going uptown." "Don't be depressed about Pammy." "She wasn't going to take you anyplace at all." "I could see that right off." "I was just sort of..." "You were just sort of into her." "Is that it?" "You thought something would happen." "Right?" "Like something really amazing." "Maybe have one of her lousy hallucinations?" "It's alright for now." "But I'd hate to think of it as a career." "As long as I can fill in the gaps by playing clarinet... and getting drunk once in a while." "It's tolerable." "But not forever." "That's for sure." "What can I say." "She just got into town." "We met last summer." "And we've been writing." "I can't believe it!" "It's nuts." "Hey?" "Don't mention the Sutherland's party to Stephen and Brawley." "Is this chick Jackie in love with you?" "If you mention one word about this party." "I'm going to hit the roof." "Because they cannot come." "I don't want them to know that Jackie is in town." "Why go or why not go?" "If you are going to go." "Go and have fun... but the next time it happens." "Don't come by explaining." "Fuck your group." "You're shitting on us..." "Steve and I are going out by ourselves." "Steve is in is Hadassa costume." "I have an appointment at the clinic." "Me and my rubber glove." "So take care!" "Power to the people!" "Does anyone want to cop a feel of my rubber glove?" "That's my water you're using..." "It's the only water we have." "Have you seen my blue shirt?" "It's in the bedroom." "Take my dress out." "Will you?" "What do you think of that guy that came with Bozo?" "The bearded one..." "Frank?" "Okay." "But he's so quiet he kind of spooks you a bit." "What do you think?" "I thought he was one of the most inconspicuous conspicuous people" "Like the noisy silent type" "Well." "Why do you want to go hang out with a pile of straights?" "Because it's new." "They don't let us play any of their reindeer games." "What are we?" "Fucking corroded reindeer?" "When they want us." "We're here." "I think sometimes." "We should not be here when they want us." "You are right Peter." "Let's start getting lost." "Can you see me?" "Can you tell it's really me?" "I've disappeared." "Maybe if I put on my yarmulka cap and chant my Bar Mitzva..." "Another trip wasted." "Trying to decide what to do." "We're going?" "You have another idea?" "I think we should go and try and figure out what is happening." "Not in this weather." "Fuck off!" "Come on." "I'm serious." "Well you like to gouge." "Gouge and gorge all the... the innards out of our relationship." "That's bullshit Bozo." "You're just copping out." "All our fucking friends are gay." "Right?" "We talk about it all the time." "Every time we go on acid." "That's not true." "Come on." "I'm serious." "I know Frank." "That's why I'm glad you've got both hands on the wheel." "Oh yeah." "You're really cute." "Eh?" "Frank." "I try to be serious about the relationship between us, and it cracks me up half the time..." "Right." "You don't mean jokingly?" "Someday we should really get into it." "Just to prove all your points, and just to... get the issue over with for good." "Because what we have is pretty amazing." "A six year-old friendship." "Well I think it should grow." "I'm not saying we've gotta go queer." "But..." "Every time you say that word, I flip." "Frank doesn't have anything to do with Johnny." "Per se." "Per se." "Ad nauseum..." "All he wants is the rush of what it feels like to be a homo for an hour." "It's the docks." "It's not a place to be Frank." "There's a lot of rough trade." "From sailors and others." "Let's just start!" "Okay." "Anytime you're ready." "What should we do first?" "Get out the manual." "Okay." "Let's just start." "Here goes." "Do you feel anything?" "I feel... um..." "Ridiculous." "Jesus Bozo." "Come on!" "Let's take it out of our pants." "Okay." "Let's take them out." "Okay." "Any time." "Are you ready?" "Jesus." "It's cold." "Are you getting a bit hard?" "I think so." "Good." "They've gone." "Let's drop it." "Hey." "Come here." "What's happened to you?" "Why are you sitting here?" "Because nothing is happening." "There are people here Frankie." "I think there is a famous person in the other room." " You know these people?" " You want to go?" "Let's go." "Later." "Give me 10 minutes." "I have to find Jackie." "I think she's outside lying in a pool of blood." "Okay." "I'll see you later." " More coffee?" " I think that can be arranged." "How do you feel this morning?" " I feel..." " Tentative..." "Not bad." "Late enough that I'd rather not know how late it was." "I was just thinking all the voices are half level." "I was thinking for today... that we go pick up Jackie after a while." "I mean if we have time." "That's a good idea." "Let's go visit the Sutherlands." "You know." "Saturday afternoon." "We could mow the lawn." "Play football." " The whole thing." "Eh?" " Yeah." "You like that?" "Do you like Jackie?" "Yeah." "She's nice." "She is nice." "I knew you would like her." "Hey mom." "Come here for a minute." "Not now Johnny." "I'm busy." "Oh come on!" "Okay." "I'll just be a minute." "Look what you did to your shirt!" "Come look at my new thing in the garage." "Your new thing in the garage?" "Is that it?" "I've been taking pictures of kids lately, and I thought." "Well I was going to go up to the mountain this Sunday, and maybe I could take some shots of John?" "What were you saying." "Frank?" "Are you going to her party?" "Not the one you were invited to..." "We were there and two girls came climbing up the tree to look... through the window." "That's not true." "John knows Janice." "Intimately." "Why." "Listen to Don Juan." "Hi." "Are you ready to go?" "Jesus." "I'm sort of nervous about this." "It is going to be great." "Let's do one." "Let's take one over here." "Cut it in half." "It's going to be spectacular." "Okay." "You light it." "Watch this line." "Here goes." "When it gets to this big part." "Let's start bombarding it." "We should wait just a minute." "Should we light it there?" "It's a forest fire." "Ready?" "I'll get mine first." " No sir." " One more." "John." "Look at the camera." "I can get a job... and buy you all the body stockings you could ever use." "What would you like here." "That is cheap and nice?" "I'd like to know how long we'll be together." "I want to know what I should answer to that." "A long time." "Right?" "I should say for forever and ever?" "You should have everything all pre-planned." "You want to stay together for a long time?" "Why are we even thinking about this right now?" "Are we falling apart after only two days?" "I'm not worried." "I was just thinking..." "Let's just stay together for as long as we last." "And then split." "What does that mean?" "Whatever happens every time." "What's more important to you." "The type or the relationship?" "The relationship." "Even if it only lasts an hour... it can be fantastic." "It can be really worthwhile." "But I don't know." "I have a feeling..." "But you don't have anything." "If it only lasts 4 days or a week." "You have what happened." "I hate talking about this." "Because you get me all paranoid." "But." "I don't feel that way." "I just want to know." "No." "I don't want to see Brawley." "That looks nice with your shirt." "Let's just settle for symbols." "Because." "We really love each other now." "Let's leave it alone." "And see what happens." "Got any hot dogs there Patrick?" "We'll have two of your famous dogs." "Money?" "Don't you have any bread on you?" "I can't afford you Johnny." "I shouldn't have brought you here." "French Fries." "The guy in the beard will pay." "And a Russian napkin." "Well." "What do you think?" "Super day." "Strange..." "It is sort of weird." "I can dig it in a way." "Coming close." "Huh?" "Sort of..." "What do you mean?" "I don't know." "Man." "I think you should give him a lot of room." "Frankie." "You can't restrict a kid." "Do you want a hot dog?" "Yeah." "I'll come get it in a minute." "Good shot." "Wait." "I'm watching something over here." "Are you having a good time." "Johnny?" "Brawley's the competition See who's the best shot." "You're so camp." " Okay." "Machine guns!" " Where's your bread?" "Go get your bread." "Where are you going for Xmas, John?" "Eh Brawley." "What's Xmas spell to you, Baby?" "Your psychopathic father and your brothers!" "Unbelievable." "Andy!" "It's just like you to be so classically depressed." "I'm not depressed." "I'm just furious." "You're in your usual mood... where you say:"I'm not upset." "I'm just furious!"" "I'm not upset." "I'm just furious." "We got $8 back and the cake." "Did you tell him?" "No." "Too hungry." "I'm not even furious." "I'm just tired." "If you look at the kid like he's a guru... and he's bringing a little light into our bloody lives." "The kid's a new Leonard Cohen." "What territory of yours could he ever crowd?" "Every territory." "Bozo." "You should have a lot more confidence in yourself." "He isn't a waste of energy." "He's like a flash in the pan." "A flash in what pan?" "Is that from that?" "It could blow your head off." "How can it go up those wires?" "What do you mean?" "How come it didn't do anything to the wires?" "I don't know." "You stick your hand in it." "We'll try it again." "Okay?" "Just wait a few minutes." "Then I'll call." "Okay?" "Five minutes won't hurt." "Where were you for supper." "John?" "I ate at Tony's house." "Couldn't you have called?" "Sorry... is that all?" "Go to bed." "I am waiting..." "Jesus." "This is only the 1st stage." "We still have the dividing and the rolling." "And then we have the decision." "Which rail?" "Which rail goes to who?" "And then the actual snorting." "Oh my." "You've been counting Bozo." "You know how it goes." "Was Bozo ever impressed." "Eh?" "The coke is so fine." "It looks as if it was definitely from Hollywood." "Is anybody hungry?" "Bozo wants to go." "Oh." "Look at that doll boy!" "Is that a boy or a girl?" "Are you a boy or are you a girl?" "God almighty." "Look at that college star." "Come on baby." "The town is crawling with... basket balls." "Look at the picturesque chickie on the corner." "In the white and blue?" "Yeah." "The white and blue drag." "With the flashing light." "I'm not ready for tonight though." "It's a bit slow." "I'm not ready." "I'm starving." "Let's go to Ben Ash." "Peter." "A smoked meat and a drink." "Would be a groove." "Eh girls?" "We have a special ritual." "We always do at red lights." "We put our fingers down your fronts." "Okay?" "She's cute." "You." "Are with him." "You." "You are with me." "Okay." "Now lean forward." "I said." "Lean forward..." "Look at me." "Smile..." "Smile!" "I said:" "Smile!" "How do you expect me to have fun?" "Come here." "Lean forward." "You." "Shut your eyes." "You." "Lean forward!" "Do what he says!" "Look at me." "Now!" "Okay." "Be absolutely still." "You shut up!" "Be still." "Be absolutely still." "You scum!" "Oh Jesus Christ Bozo." "Cut it out!" "Don't look at me like this." "If you want to go to Harvey's." "It is just as close." "We can go here." "They have hamburgers." "They have games." "What happens if my mother finds out?" "How is she going to find out?" "You know my mother..." "Are you going to tell her?" "Then she won't find out." "Alright." "I've seen enough." "How are you doing." "Old man?" "Want to take a walk to the other end and leave the boys alone?" "Why hell." "There's a seat for you here..." "You boys are lucky I got rid of that asshole." "He was ready to leach on you." "He had suction cups on his fingers." "You definitely ain't from." "This district." "Eh?" "Do you live near here or from far away?" "You are from here." "Maybe?" "Look." "You're shaking in your boots." "You are a bit paranoid." "What are you doing down here." "Exposing yourself to this kind of decadence?" "On the tired urinal of Babylon?" "No." "I guess you're down here to play?" "Want to play some games?" "No." "I'm not going to play with you." "Well shit." "I see you boys down here." "You're hovering." "You're hanging ten." "You're toes are over the board." "Do you read me boys?" "Can I have some reaction from you?" "It's your St. Laurent St. Father figure the great spirit." "Gitchee Manitou." "Boys will be boys and play with toys." "But these kinds of toys are somebody else's." "They might want to take the toys away." "And take you with the toys." "Yes." "I'm an old soft shoe man." "So take care of yourselves." "Be good..." "Be strong like a beast." "Jesus man." "Let's get outta here." "Well." "Aren't you coming?" "All the lovely people." "I do wonder where you all came from..." "Probably the same lettuce leaf in supermarkets that I did." "Some kind of reproductive syndrome of reality like that." "There was a man getting stoned." "Right in the middle of Babylonian America." "I do declare." "I believe this is the Alexis Nihon plaza." "It's all good." "The towers get higher and I get higher with the towers." "Dancing shoes." "I'll bring Peter a pair... for his new job." "Take an ice cream." "Okay?" "Why can the obnoxious introduction and just meet Jackie." "Jackie..." "I don't understand what has happened here." "He has a very hard time meeting people." "Bozo." "You're so into chicks." "Why shouldn't I?" "I always have." "Bozo is a chick." "Basically." "The man that you are with is telling you a bit of a fib." "What are you insinuating?" "That you look too much like his mum." "No." "She doesn't look like her mum." "It's cool." "You look like her mum." "Easy on the insults." "I'd like to know what the hell is going on." "What are you insinuating?" "Insinuating?" "I always lay it on the line." "You are really one of the most beautiful women that I have ever seen with Bozo." "Of course." "That might be a small field." "Where do you want to go?" "I have better things to do than listen to this shit." "Get lost baby." "You shouldn't have said that." "She's a nice chick." "Why don't you do this a few more times in my life." "Eh?" "What do you want?" "I just came to tell you that." "I was just talking to the boys." "Yes." "I saw that." "Please." "You didn't give them a chance." "They like you." "Look." "I don't care how they feel about me." "They think you are really nice." "You didn't give them long enough." "I guess they are not my type." "Nor mine." "But they are good underneath..." "They're not your type." "That is what they think is a joke." "Fooling around like that." "If you wanted to know if this wire was broken or not." "You touch it to one end." "Then touch it to the other." "If it goes up like that." "You know." "You try it..." "Like this?" "Yes." "Like that..." "My sister." "My brother." "My two brothers in Florida." "And another sister is in Mexico." "This one." "Twisting her face." "This is a friend of ours." "That one I took when I was working in New York..." "As a photographer." "These are some other friends in NY." "That one is Tony." "He's a friend of Bozo." "Who's the old guy in the back?" "Bozo's father." "Do you ever think like... you know." "Bozo and I are older and..." "Why we are friends." "Why we like someone like you?" "Do you ever wonder what kind of people we are?" "I don't know." "Frankie?" "Is Frankie in?" "He's in the dark room." "Oh." "I won't bug him." "What are you doing here?" "I don't know." "Drawing pictures." "Drawing pictures?" "And taking photograph too?" "Are you the same cat that I met earlier today at the Silver?" "Boy are you getting around." "This is the big time." "Hey?" "You never had it so good?" "I guess not." "You're still shy?" "I heard about you." "I didn't know you were the same cat." "The word is out." "Frankie has a new friend." "Developing a meaningful relationship?" "You don't know?" "You guess so..." "You don't mind if I make a call?" "You're not going to listen." "Whatever you hear." "Don't tell anyone." "Because." "I'm a businessman." "And my phone is my office." "So you two have been running around?" "He has pictures of you?" "Unreal." "I'm impressed." "Hello." "Pammy?" "What's up." "Is your husband there?" "I want to speak to him." "Up at Frankie's." "I've been looking for him for a few days." "Not Frankie." "Your husband." "No." "I'm up at Frankie's." "With Johnny." "You know Johnny?" "You are famous." "All through the community." "You are the man." "You bet." "The keyazid is geyazorge." "You know what I mean?" "Right." "The whole town is tossing." "The whole town is hurling." "Yeah." "I'm impressed." "Yeah." "So he's out?" "He'll be back in a couple of hours?" "Yeah." "Sure." "In a couple of hours..." "A friend of mine's wife." "Looking for a balance." "The old Yin and Yang." "It's a healthy view of the planet." "Mind you." "From your fucking perspective." "That being a dirty word." "I don't know if you can get a good angle." "Oh." "There I go." "Spouting in my fast talk again." "So what's happening?" "Nothing much?" "You just hanging." "While he does more photos of you?" "You dig being his model?" "You like looking at yourself?" "You don't know?" "You lose your voice?" "Let's hear you speak up." "Do I scare you?" "We're all fast livers on the East end." "Sometimes I talk fast to people." "When I get a little nervous." "I see you have a bit of reserve if you can't control your voice." "You can at least control the situation." "I mean... being here and being a star." "Why look at you!" "You're up in print." "In photographs." "Looking at yourself is narcissism." "And me looking at you is voyeurism, but here we are live." "So I'm just doing some correlating." "You." "Sitting there upon that stool." "In two dimensions... here in the photograph in three." "Educational." "Eh?" "What are you doing?" "Did you get that from Frank?" "What have you two been doing down there." "Anyway?" "Sometimes." "Well what?" "It must be something interesting or you wouldn't go there so much." "We just fool around." "Fool around with what?" "Fool around with what?" "This is epic." "I'm the only one who knows how to use makeup." "Look how thick you have it on." "You call that..." "That's the way you have to use it." "You've got 2 twinkles on your eyelids." "That breaks every rule of makeup." "I'm ready." "Do you like this?" "I'm ready for the show." "Is this blue stuff any good?" "You want to look like a raccoon." "Gah." "This stuff is gook..." "Well." "I told you what to use." "I said I'd do it for you..." "I know." "But look at yours." "Baby." "That comes off in fives." " What goes in here?" " Tiger balm." "Let me do your eyes John." "Because someone made a mess of you." "I'm going to take all this stuff out." "Don't." "More god damn base..." "Is this Pammy's?" "It's mine." "And its really expensive." "So." "Easy." "Lancôme." "Is that a name?" "Yes." "It's from Paris." "Bozo." "Come on!" "I don't have any of my favourite colours out yet." "Come on." "You're going to put some of this white on John." "I'll make you look like..." "You're in trouble... here." "Lean forward." "Relax." "I know what I'm doing." "How am I supposed to get made up when everyone is all over me?" "You are sticking your finger in my eye." " You've got so much meat around your eyes." " Oh." "Don't be gak." "Don't be gak." "Don't be yuk." "Gak or yuk?" "Don't make faces like that." "I'm the only one who is obviously a queen around here." "Look at that face." "Great." "I don't know why you are so fucking freaked out by it?" "You made the sauce bernaise." "He's your friend." "Get it?" "No." "We've been through that." "We've been through the vampire." "We've seen the boy who has sex with seven women." "Oh here." "Great shot." "Hubby hires thugs to rape wife a hundred times... to cure her of lesbianism." "You should call your mother up and say on the phone." ""Lesbianism"." "Just give her the word." "Hey!" "Easy on the literature." "Like you are in a library." "You know what I mean?" "Because you believed in God." "This is the greatest fucking picture in the whole thing." "This." "That's the picture." "This is what you should take to Frank." "This is where Johnny's at." "Let's do a close-up issue on Frank and Johnny... with their names in headlines" "Young boy slain..." "Johnny in the bushes." "Jesuit priest kills his soul." "I'm going out for a walk." "Come on." "We've been playing this game for a month now." "That's exactly what it's been to you." "Nothing but a game!" "All you care about is yourself." "Everything else is a big joke." "You're a big joke." "Jackie." "I know." "That's exactly what I found out." "So you're splitting?" "I've never met anyone like you Bozo." "You really take them all." "I can't believe how supersillious you are." "You live off everyone." "Just like some kind of leech." "Oh." "Like a leech or something." "Your supersillious grins and I'm sick and tired of it." "Oh Jackie." "Jump off the roof then." "I wouldn't give you that satisfaction you stupid son of a bitch!" "You think you can twist people's lives and manipulate them..." "You think you can control other people You don't give a shit about anybody." "You're just like the Sutherlands Hip on the outside... scared and nervous about things on the inside." "It's a high-pitched righteous tone that I get from you." "All the time." "That's why I'm sick to fucking death of your questions because... they epitomize how little you know about what's going on all around you." "Well I've heard enough." "Bozo." "Split then." "Actually." "You never heard enough... because you'll never really know what's happening..." "Well." "I've heard enough from you." "Okay." "Well find it somewhere else." "Read the god damned encyclopedia to find out what's going on." "Was he over there last night?" "No." "That's okay." "What's the matter?" "So you stick around." "Maybe wait." "Maybe I'll come back." "So what's happening?" "Where's my paper?" "Where's our help?" "What are you starring in." "MGM?" "You... forget you." "Sir." "Can I help you?" "Frank is fucked." "Frank doesn't know where he is." "But you know where you are..." "It's a big bore." "Yes sir." "Can I help you?" "He's not into discussing nothing." "Especially himself." "He's too busy thinking." "Too busy doing." "He's right in the middle of action." "Cigarettes." "Ice cream." "Soft drinks." "How can you put a man down?" "He's this far away from being 12 yrs old." "Chewing gum." "Life Savers..." "He's totally down." "Totally out of it." "I'm totally out of it." "As far as Frank is concerned." "He's alright." "Give him time." "Let him document it." "How come you're so up?" "How come you're so up?" "We're here in business to serve the public." "Hello." "Okay." "Terrific." "Five minutes." "Four minutes." "Aren't you supposed to be in school today?" "You didn't go." "Eh?" "I'm going to Lachute." "Want to come?" "What are you doing here?" "Come on." "There's room." "To Lachute?" "Well." "Alright." "Fine with me." "Hey Johnny." "I've got a great idea." "Let's see if we can lose Frank." "A good horse." "Well dressed." "How much am I bid for him?" "$125!" "I have $130." "Give me five... $135." "Give me $140..." "Do you know what this reminds me of?" "Do you know what part of this horse reminds me of Frank?" "Look at the size of that mouth." "We could buy that for Frank." "Put a little string around it." "And say Merry Xmas from Johnny and Bozo." "Wouldn't that be the nicest present for old Frankie?" "What do you say?" "A horse." "For a friend." "What's up?" "I forgot my key." "I can't get in." "So." "I'll go to the Booths and fool around until my parents get back." "I might sleep there." "It's not a good time now." "See you later." "Sit down and have a Smoked Meat with me." "Okay?" "Are you kidding?" "A Smoked meat?" "I'm not in the mood." "Well." "Sit down with me while I have one." "Alright?" "They go on the platform." "Then they auction them off." "There's a guy with a big cigar who starts yelling..." "I don't want to hear anything from you." "I'm bored with your vision of youth." "It's alright." "I understand." "You're nice to say that." "I know it's late." "No." "I wasn't asleep." "Really?" "I'm sorry." "Frankie." "Please let's not talk about these games." "You are pathetic when you open your mouth on that subject." "Period..." "I'll print out the feelings I have for you in block letters." "And put them in neon." "That way you'll be able to read them." "Look John." "I don't want you to see Frank anymore." "For his tummy." "Tum-tum..." "After a very tough day." "With 2 kids in the country." "Are we hungry?" "Why not?" "Because I think it will be a lot better for you if you don't." "What do you mean." "Better for me?" "Because you've been in trouble ever since you've seen Frank." "Frank has nothing to do with anything." "On the contrary." "Frank has a lot to do with it." "He's older than you." "You should spend time with your friends of the same age." "Are you prejudiced or something?" "Listen John." "Don't see him." "Okay?" "Out it out." "Bozo..." "If it's not you." "You don't even care." "Out it out!" " Don't talk to me like that." " You stupid pig!" "Moron!" "Pay your bill!" "Well then." "Let's go to McWhinny." "I hear they have new racers." "I'm not interested." "You aren't going to hang around with those bums again?" "So." "What?" "So." "You're father said you can't." "What does he know?" "Shut up for a while." "Just a minute please." "Frank." "It's for you." "Would you have a seat?" "He'll be with you in a minute." "Hi Frank." "Come on in." "I don't think you should gratify your dream." "It's an illusion." "You keep it out of your reach." "You make it an aesthetic." "Right." "You're into the kid... but if you try to take it any further." "You'll be imposing." "You dig a butterfly while it's flying... but you don't want to see it pinned to your wall..." "You dug it while it was in the air." "Going from flower to flower, but if you try to catch the kid." "You'll turn him into something else." "He won't be the kid you fell in love with." "The kid has to be his own age." "You can't be his partner in crime." "Yes." "But sometimes." "Sometimes you aren't with people of your age." "Yeah." "But that's just to gratify a lust." "You've created another illusion." "If you think that, if you gratify with this." "Then." "You're just into it as an abstraction." "In the same way heroin will gratify a lust." "Or a certain pleasure at that time." "But you have no relation with it." "You have no relationship with it other than it gratifies you." "Whereas at this time." "You have a relation which is more profound." "You're digging Johnny." "You are vampirizing this 12 yr old." "In another way than literally feeding on his carcass." "Thanks for coming over." "Frank." "Can I get you a cup of coffee." "Or a cigarette?" "I know it's out of your way to get down here... and I appreciate it." "I asked you to come because..." "I've been doing a lot of thinking... about you and Johnny... and it's been bothering me a lot." "I've decided." "I'm going to ask you not to see Johnny any more." "Stop seeing him?" "I mean." "A complete cut-off." "It has to be." "That's all there is to it." "But why?" "Look." "I don't have to justify it to you." "But it concerns me." "I'm a human being." "Aren't I?" " You are what?" " A human being..." "I'm sorry." "I don't want it to seem like a reflection on you... or anything you've done." "Because I don't know what you've done." "I don't know what's going on between you and Johnny." "It's just disturbing." "The whole situation." "And so I've decided that I want you to stop seeing him..." "I want you to agree to it." "Bozo's getting uptight." "Jackie's getting uptight." "I don't want to get into that." "I just want your promise not to see him." "Well." "What is it." "Frank?" "Okay Frank." "Then I'm telling you don't see him again." "Are you in there John?" "I'm just fed up." "I don't even care about this home here or whatever you call it." "It's a dungeon... there is all this paraphenalia." "This is paraphenalia row..." "row no. 1. row no. 2" "the columns formed by the great pillers... 1.2.3.4." "The pipe." "Listen to it gurgle." "I don't give a shit." "Lie alone all night..." "I don't give a shit." "If you get fucked." "Like fucked or made love to." " You want a sandwich?" " No." "What's the matter with you lately?" "Nothing's the matter with me lately." "Why don't you go out back and help your father?" "I don't feel like it..." "Sometimes you have to do things you don't feel like." "Go help him." " I'll do whatever I want." "Okay?" " No!" "It isn't okay." "You're absolutely amazing." "Aren't you afraid that they will find out you are here?" "No." "I want to stay here." "I want to stay here." " You're kidding aren't you?" " Why?" "Because your father will send the police over to get you." "I don't care about him." "But jesus Johnny." "I care." "I can't be your new father." "I'm not ready for you to move in." "But we are friends!" "I know... but..." "You can't stay here." "You're afraid of him." "Aren't you?" "Johnny." "I can't kidnap you." "Okay?" " Are you just afraid?" " Okay I am." "So fucking what?" "Okay." "Let's go for a walk." "Brawley says to say hello to you." "Why don't you go over there and buy us some Cokes or something?" "Go on." "Come in!" "Where is Johnny?" "He's not here." "Fuck it." "He's not here." "Alright." "Where is he?" "I don't know where he is." "When did you see him?" "You saw him today." "Where?" "He came over here." "I didn't ask him." "He just came over." "You gave me the impression you were going to help." "David." "He just came here." "What am I going to do?" "Why didn't you call me?" "I'm sorry David." "I didn't mean to fuck everything up." "Well." "You are doing a pretty nice job." "I don't know..." "It's been so stupid..." "I don't even know what I was doing." "If I was trying to screw up you and Jackie or... or fuck the Sutherlands up..." "You know..." "I just feel sort of like..." "Like..." "I don't know..."