Tuesday, 2 October 2007

Chapter 16

It was only noon and I wasn’t meeting Sally till 2 o’clock. I started walking over towards Broadway. There was this record I wanted to get Phoebe, called ‘Little Shirley Beans.’ I knew it would knock her out. As I walk walking I noticed a family that had just come out of some church. They looked sort of poor. The kid was walking in the street instead of on the sidewalk, but right next to the curb. The whole time he kept singing and humming. He was singing that song ‘If a body catch a body comin’ through the rye.’ He had a pretty little voice, too. It made me feel better. Not so depressed anymore.
I got Phoebe the record and made me my to the park to see if she was around so I could give it to her. She wasn’t there though. So what I did was I walked over to the museum. When I was a kid we used to go there all the time with school. I love that damn museum. The best thing was that everything always stayed right where it was. You could go there a hundred thousand times and everything would be right where it had always been. Nothing would be different. The only thing different would be you.
When I got there I didn’t want to go in. So I got a cab to go meet Sally. I didn’t feel much like going though.

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