strange men with belly trouble & their pin up girls: zelda rat-crooked betty & volcano the leg-here they come there popped out & they've been seen crying in the chapel -their friend, who says that everybody cries a lot-he's the congressional one & carries the snapshots-his name is Tapanga Red-known in L.A. as Wipe 'M Out-he coughs a lot -anyway they walk in-it's very early & they ask for black mongrels apiece-jenny says "why not roll 'in?" "there cops!" says a little boy who just climbed a mountain &

who's learned how to smell in the circus-jenny retires to the pinball machine-steam getting thicker-zelda rat asks for second black mongrel-please make it hot-one of the men, he dangles a watch in front of her face "It's late-zeld babe-it's late" & zelda's face turns into a measle & she says "i'm allergic"-a ringing sound & she say "oh look-that girl over there is getting free balls"-trying to get jenny's attention, one of the men, he asks "anything bothering you?" jenny replies "yes-whatever happened to Orval Faubus?" & the man quickly drops the subject-his eye swollen he pushes one of the hot mongrels down poor zelda's dress asks now does she wanna another one-everybody breaks into stitches excpt someone who's talking to a window & jenny, who's busy racking up balls ... the man who looks like an adam's apple-i think he belongs to crooked betty he goes thru his stool-volcano-she wraps him in the national insider-everybody reads him-jenny tilts the machine -the man's dead-just then, the congressional one, he pulls out a luger he says a kraut give to him during the war which is a goddamn lie, & begins to shoot up the barbecue beef signs ...the radio plays the star spangled banner-next day, a young arsonist, with a turtle on his head & his hands on his hips & his backbone slipping, sees me walking the donkey on the east side-"saw you with jenny last nite anything happening there?" i say "oh my God, how can you ask such a thing? dont you know there are starving kids in china?" he say "yes, but that was last nite-today' a new day" & i say "yeah-well that's too bad-i still aint gonna tell you nothing about jenny" he calls me an idiot & i say "here take my donkey if it'll make you feel any better -i'm on my way to the movies anyway it is five minutes to rush hour-a strange transaction of goods takes place on third avenue-the supermarket explodes from malnutrition -God bless malnutrition