Monday, October 28, 2019

T-Bone's Better Blues.

He was on lunch break, skirting around in the passenger seat of the Chevalier, his usual place opposite Ron.

They went in the french restaurant, where T-Bone got a Monster Burger, but didn't have money enough for a drink.  Luckily, he kept drinks around, which was a weird habit, but he had been raised in a household of constantly thirsty diabetics, so there it is.  He had a Dr Pepper in the door pocket of the little Chevalier.

From there, it was just like the voice actor from Williams Street, saying he drank Dr Pepper to voice the character of "Meatwad" on Aqua Teen.  He said the lingo was between urban street judiciously combined with redneck.  And yes, he voiced the character, but also wrote most of the character's dialogue.

"I want candy,
bubble gum and taffy;
skip to the sweet chocolate,
my sweetheart Sandy.
I'm her Hume Cronin;
she's my Jessica Tandy.
I want candy!"

Chris and Jason from work watched T-Bone leave with the giant sandwich wrapped in wax paper.  As T-Bone passed by, Chris was saying, "on Lifetime last night, that lady was talking about she had married a monster."

Ron smiled and followed T-Bone out the door, meanwhile T-Bone was rolling his eyes so much that he almost disoriented himself.

"Did you come here for forgiveness?
Did you come to raise the dead?
Did you come here to play Jesus
to the lepers in your head?"

Later in the evening, the drinking began, and the roiling around the Homecoming game at the varsity stadium, and the obligatory trip into the woods, off an abandoned driveway, one of those places that had a farmhouse on it, like a sharecropper shack, back years upon years ago.

And T-Bone would find himself again without his underwear, tied nude, except for his athletic socks, to a tree, with his semi-erect penis making obscure shadows all over the tries, shadows from the car headlights of the Chevalier, making shadows like two hands with only pinkie fingers, tickling across the leaves in prismatic diffusion.

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