Anthony carries a load.

"They get up early in Arizona because it's hot."



"You have conference calls?"

"I run a business."

"I thought it was a shoe shine service that peddles newspapers."

"Come on. It is much more involved than that. It is something of a conduit to the Free Press-- Benjamin Edes would be proud. It also gives you an opportunity to grab a snickers bar and a bottle of sugar called Pepsi."


"A service that this country honors you for."

"The fattening of the nation?"

"I will never complain."

"That reminds me that my mother doesn't have a lap." He reared back in his chair. " I can honestly tell you I have never noticed this before."

"We have to get your hand on a bible."

"You know I think it has been awhile since I have seen her out in public. You know what I mean? Out in the days light."

"Ok right. Out doors."

"She wanted me to meet her downtown, she shopped a little and then we jumped on a bus to head to another store. She sat in a bench seat across from me and I watched people try to squeeze next to her and then quickly get their asses up. I looked at their irritated faces as my mothers hips pop the change out of their pockets. You know?"

"People in this city will always try and hold position to spite, that says a lot about your mother's body mass index if this wasn't accomplished."

"It does, you know. But I also discovered why sauceboots doesn't curl up in her lap; she doesn't have one. You know what I mean? When she sits its like the letter C."

"She can sit at the top of the C and put her claw in her stomach.Why the attack?"

"I make light, but I am responsible for all of this. I need her to be comfortable in her bigness if it's going to make me comfortable."

"You?"

"If she doesn't puts the Twinkies down where does that leave me? You know it's not just her it's the whole family I don't want to help them in their debilitation so that I fuckin' look good."

"Well you don't."

"Huh."

"You look terrible."

"Well I'm not good at it."

"No your not."

"Nobody is really honest anymore except like you want to be."


"Your easy."

"I'm sad. What state am I in as a son to allow my mother to sit on the bus with no lap?"

"All of a sudden your carrying this?"

"Yea. I don't know, man....I see myself."

"What a sight."