Turns out everyone here is a crack head, except for a couple of pot heads, and one glue head. Must write letter to hospital. This is a bad environment for recovery.
Stuk walks quickly, sometimes dances, sometimes stiff, down the street his guitar in one hand, a tie dye t-shirt. His Einstein-hair head down.
"Pete just ripped me off."
"What?"
"I gave him sixty dollars, and he goes in the house and never comes out. We saw him look through the blinds."
"Screw him."
Knock on Scufo's door.
"Enter."
Crack open his door. He is under the covers with a beautiful young black hair girl. Take a good look at her. She giggles.
"Hey Scuf, got a smoke?"
"Sure bro. Remind me to play my new song for you later."
"Thanks dude." Scufo is cool. He's in a band. Whatever.
Nothing to do one day I go over to the billboard in an area of grass between highways. It's a cool little world nobody goes. I touch the board and put my face close. I see little blue, red, and yellow dots. The heart is mostly red dots, but blue and yellow too. Even the white has all three color dots. The letters are taller than me.
Evening in bed. "Venus! Venus!" Scufo pounds my cheaply constructed door, "Have you seen my cat?"
"No."
"Let me in. Is Venus in there?"
"She's not here." I am not getting out of bed. "Let me in."
"She's not here. Go away."
He punches a hole through the center of my door and sticks his face through just like Jack Nicholson.
"I can't believe you. Are you insane?"
"Just wanted to see for myself."
"What the hell is wrong with you?" Can smell the airplane glue. Walk to corner pay phone. Call the cops. Scufo goes to jail, because he was already on parole. I take care of his cat for him! Life is sad.
I love Kitty. Kitty is my baby. My little Whiskanippins. Kitty is my Lady McLickins, my Princess Catatina. Miss Pink Lips. Kitty is gray and white like Bugs Bunny, with pink lips and toes. The prettiest cat in all the land. She's a little runt. Chicken Lickin'. Nipper mittens. Honey pie.
Dennis gives me countless cigarettes, and buys me many steak subs, never asking for anything in return. He's got a car, a place with nice furnishings, a tapestry of a leopard roaring on a mountain peak, and a male longhair cat, who's always trying to get outside. He likes driving out to the park.