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BLACK
HELICOPTERS EPISODE 40 SUNDAY the NINTH - 10:41 PM "You
didn't get a shot of the body?" Nelson scratched his head
in the Eleven studio. "Told
you!" Billy said, "fuckin' place was rotten with
spooks! Locals, Turks, Guard... lucky some cop didn't trash our gear. They totaled
Five Alive's cameras..." "Because
they
got shots of that copter you were too late arriving
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"Because
I'm out there on my own, and action was still goin’
down near Masty Hall. Five has three crews
doing my job... well, they're gonna be down to two
awhile..."
Nelson
burped. Old battle, old stalemate.
"So
they won't have anything with that copter crash to show us up with
either?"
"What
Bruce said! He was all beat-up... first they took the
tape out of the equipment, then they trashed it. Then they trashed him. Men in black!
Black suits and ties like those Turkish goons – not the Turks, the ones
from the country? Said he had killer
footage of local kids beating the crap out of some of the U.N. Turks so, of
course, nobody'll ever see anything on that tape..."
"The body?" Nelson ventured. "The
killer?"
"Gone! Prob'ly chillin' out in some Iranian meatlocker
by now, like Bashir Asshole. Or on its way to Area 51 already," Billy
crossed his lying heart.
Nelson
stroked his chin, took out his cigar, looking at it as if it were a long, wet
leafy bullet. "I suppose it would be too much to assume you didn't go over
to the Five Van, let 'em make a copy of your own footage, so Bruce can cover
his ass with Dornan and maybe return the favor sometime when you
fuck up! Working dude to working dude? Right?" Billy
merely assumed an offended sneer. "Helen!" the news
editor finally shouted, planting the stogie back into his mouth...
"Uhhh..." Billy started to interrupt.
"I
can get a Chinaman with one of those goddam cellphone cameras and a satellite
uplink to take your place for fifty cents a day. Don't you forget it! Helen!"
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SATURDAY the EIGHTH - 11:39 PM
Andy
put his smokes back into his pocket, took a slug of the sour, overproof ABM he'd bought and started walking... not really
following Rael, exactly, just walking his anger off. He'd crossed three blocks
and finished half the malt liquor when a voice oozed out from the alley where
the natural foods people kept their dumpsters.
"Spare
change, man?"
"Fuck
off!" Andy spat into the dark.
A
scarecrow-tall wraith staggered out from between the dumpsters, blocking his
path; some kid Andy thought he remembered from here or there, or nowhere. Most
likely the Sanctuary, on one of the city's colder nights when eighty-proof
oblivion failed and the shivering germs crawled out of their germ-holes.
"Spare a quarter? A dime, nickel... spare a
fuckin' penny man? Got to have a penny on you.
How 'bout a hit of that beer?"
No
gun. No knife. It was late and Andy was very, very pissed.
"Why should I let you wrap your diseased lips around anything ever likely
to touch mine?"
"Dunno... something to do?" the kid ventured,
hopefully. Slummer... probably one of many dropouts
from the U. who'd drank, injected or smoked up his tuition, kept hanging around
like the ivy growing up the buildings there. "Nice shirt, really... like
corporate, man!" sneered the mooch. "Bet
you're real fuckin' proud of that shirt..."
"Sure,"
Andy smiled, "have a taste." He extended the can.
"Really?" Fucked up, stupid and greedy as he was,
the kid must have intuited something wrong. But he couldn't help himself;
nobody could, these days. He stumbled forward, reaching...
Andy
turned the ABM round so that pop-top hole was facing him, with a finger over it
for security, then drove the can upwards into the bum’s scum-encrusted teeth.
The
kid reeled back against a dumpster, nearly slipping on a desiccated sweet
potato. Andy carefully set the can down against the brick of the natural foodstore... there was blood dripping down the phallic,
aluminum logo, but just a little foam across the top... and hit the mooch three
times. Right to the gut, another into a kidney as he turned
sideways, a left across the mouth that bounced off his teeth too quickly.
The pain and the sight of their now-mingled blood made Andy look down at his
hand briefly, before starting to kick the panhandler down to the ground in
segments... kneeling, crawling, finally groveling around in the dirt and blood
and broken glass like a lawnmower-mangled snake... as he obsessively wiped the
bum's germs away on his pants. Andy was still wearing the out-to-dinner shoes
he'd picked up for a dollar and a half at a garage sale... a little slanty in the heel, but hard in the toe... kicked the son
of a bitch twice in the jaw and saw something white drop out amidst gouts of
blood, a tooth... maybe two… or a maggot.
He kicked the kid again in the groin but nothing seemed to happen...
didn't seem to be anything down there, so he pivoted until he was behind his
victim and started kicking him fiercely, but in the fleshy part of his ass
where it would be hard to break anything.
Just making his point…
The
kid kept crawling, crying, scabbering
to his knees, to his feet... Andy realized he was headed for the sidewalk,
where there might be people around.
He
didn't want to touch the panhandler, but finally grabbed him by the belt,
turned him round and shook him and a wallet fell from the motherfucker's
pocket. His mouth started moving around as if to form words but Andy wheeled
him back into the darkened alley, hit him in the throat, just under the chin...
hard... he gagged and more white foam, like that on the can of ABM, bubbled out
atop the drooling blood.
He
drove another right fist into the kid's gut. "Kill!"
A left, also downstairs. Andy's knuckles were scraped,
couldn't tell whose blood it was in the dim light cast by one low-watt bulb at
the rear of the store. Lots of AIDS in the City, hep
C, that new shit from Bangladesh... "You..."
Another right. "Mother..."
There
was this rag on the ground, next to one of the dumpsters that Andy picked up,
along with seven or eight pieces of broken glass... he wrapped half the rag
around his right fist, lay the two largest pieces flat, the rest on top so that
the shards would poke through the rest of the rag that he finished wrapping
around his hand, tying it tightly. Then he began pummeling the kid's face,
three times, four, five... until he dropped to a knee
again, left cheek and eye looking like raw hamburger left out to rot under the
moon. There was a dark stain spreading down the moocher’s trousers and a bad
smell, but whether from the front or back Andy couldn't tell, it was too damn
dark.
He
kicked the kid in the gut again and the panhandler's mouth creaked open like
the door to an abandoned house in a windstorm on the Kansas or Nebraska
prairie... thick, cream-colored vomit gushing out to the pavement.
Someone
walked past the alley; elderly, a Puerto Rican or Mexican from the look of him.
Kept walking... but Andy stepped out of the alley once they'd passed, looking
down the street one way, then the other.
The
lid of the dumpster was already open so he hoisted up the kid, limp and
wheezing now, held him back to back, then thrust him upwards... he hung over
the dumpster's lip a moment, then tumbled in. Instead of a thump or clatter,
there was only a the rattling of something metal in his pockets... spare
change!... then a soft, squishing sound, which meant the dumpster was already a
quarter=full of rotten cabbages and eggplant, tomatoes... maybe an exotic
papaya or avocado that nobody who lived around here could ever afford to buy.
Andy knew these dumpsters very
well. He pushed this one away from the fence, grasped its lid and shoved it up,
let it fall down and leaned against the side of the conveyance, out of breath.
The
sound of the change in the derelict's pockets reminded Andy of the wallet,
which he picked up, riffling past the State ID and expired dormitory meal
ticket and counting out... ten, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen dollars; a bus
pass, too, and he spat at the dumpster... "fucker!"
He pocketed his take, picked up the ABM,
which had survived its encounter apparently unbloodied
and undamaged, wiped it on his shirt... just in case... and toasted his
slumming student adversary.
"Enjoy
your breakfast!"
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SATURDAY the EIGHTH - 11:56 PM
Magic,
Anne thought, sitting in their suite in the Ivona
with a bourbon on the rocks and her feet up on the
bed, under a plastic bag of ice, as Glenn stormed in...
"Motherfuckers! Mother fuckers!"
"Keep
it down!" she winced. "I've got a headache! And a footache."
"Sold us out, those rat-eating Pennsylvania and Ohio delegates!"
Glenn swore. "Voted for almost all the unions' platform!
Dirty Hillary lovers! Don't they understand that Jack's just auditioning to be
a comedian, slinging all that shit about pyramids and vocational
schools? Just because most of 'em are still slicing the Democratic Party
fruitcake, waiting for Osama’s leftovers to explode – or implode – doesn’t mean
that we have to repeat all their mistakes!" He paused, waiting for a
reply. "Or do you care? You were with Rinker all night... I’ve had people
checking on you... he's got to be laughing in his briefs at the idiots we are.
Or is his a boxers' rebellion? You reek of
deception," he added, belligerently.
"Are
you trying to infer something untoward? I happen to have endured a perfectly
good evening, wallowing in Nazi fantasies that never are going to come true,
fortunately... Paul's going to have as much to do with history as Andy's little
circus which, and thank you for the information, sir, is broke down on some
back road short of town with all the elephants set free by activists and all of
the monkeys escaped and taking over the country…"
"None
of those delegates should ever be allowed to pass Tillerman
again without having to give the sig heil!"
Glenn fumed. "Motherfuckers! Is that ice?"
he pointed at what clearly was a bag of limp, melting ice across her bare feet.
"I told you not to abuse our minibar privileges... that little bag's
probably five bucks! Do you want Rayna up your ass?"
"It
isn't ice, Nick..."
"Shut
up! Just shut up!"
He
slammed the door to the bathroom behind him, and Anne heard the shower coming
on. Not ice anymore, she muttered, just cold water. Rayna could well afford
five bucks, especially after what Anne had accomplished today... and she sipped
her bourbon, staring at the drapes - expensive looking, probably not made in
China but somewhere exotic, by other dark little hands. Pakistani,
or maybe Afghani... part of what the President called his Strategic Renewal
Initiative! Child labor, in other words, in tumbledown factories at nine cents
the hour… the President had made a speech about drawing re-occupied Iraq into
something noble sounding, a Greater Central Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere,
something like that – once the Turks (the real ones, from Turkey), the Saudis,
Iranians and Russians had finished carving it up. They were white, of course...
the drapes, not the children... but there were little patterns in this...
different. White, but woven in. White on white. She
closed her eyes. Something wasn't there, lost... her contacts...
Her
shoulder twitched.
"Fuck
you, too, Henry!" she whispered.
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SATURDAY the EIGHTH -
The
Babu who was middle brother of the family was waiting
to give Andy hell when he finally buzzed for admission into his bum hotel. Andy
had decided not even to contest the inevitable accusations... he was tired, and
had to remember to keep his bloody left hand in his pocket. Thank God, or Marx,
his shirt was clean; they stood on opposite sides of the pay phone, each
shouting at the top of his voice.
"Look,
I was outta cigarettes, I'm sorry!" Andy screamed, waving the cheap
smokes. "I'm an addict!"
“We see
you! You and…” one of the Babus moved his hand to simulate a female figure with
enhanced mammaries.
"No use
door!" brayed the other. "Fire! For fire!"
"Sorry!"
Andy shouted back, storming upstairs.
"You
no pay rent!" the manager got in a low blow. "Bum!
Buy cigarettes, no rent? I get you rent Tuesday, when marshals come for three
oh six, or put you crap out on the street too!"
"Whatever!"
Andy spat over his shoulder. "And I ain't no bum. I work!"
"Where
you money?" the Babu got in the last word as
Andy added, “…just don’t get paid…” under his breath. Ridiculing him, as if
Andy were no better than the skell in the alley,
goading him into yanking the paper bag of cash from his pocket, reaching for a
fistful of bills and scattering them at his flip flops like flowers before a
statue of some divine elephant or monkey, back in the old country.
"Here! Here you money!"
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