Old Maurice

After old Sunny was gone. I sat in the chair for a while and smoked a couple of cigarettes.I felt sorta depressed so I started to talk out loud - to Allie. I do that sometimes when I'm depressed. After a while I got undressed and went to sleep. I felt like praying or something but I can hardly ever do it. Jesus always let's his disciples down or something. The poor bastards. All of a sudden someone knocked on the door. I knew who it was but I still asked. It was Maurice. He was demanding his 5 bucks that he said I owed him, I didn't owe him squat. He said it was 10 for a throw, not 5. Eventually though Sunny just took the 5 dollars out of my wallet. Then old Maurice socked me right in the guts and left. I sorta lay there for a while, but then I started to pretend that I had a bullet in my guts, I'd been shot and I needed to get the guy back who did it. I was imagining myself going down in the lift and shooting old Maurice back. Then I'd go and marry old Jane Gallagher. The movies. They kill you. They really do.