Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

YET ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE POROUSNESS OF CERTAIN BORDERS (VI)

RECONSTRUCTED TRANSCRIPT OF

MR. WALTER D. (“WALT”) DELASANDRO JR.’S

PARENTS’ MARRIAGE’S END, MAY 1956

“Don’t love you no more.”

“Right back at you.”

“Divorce your ass.”

“Suits me.”

“Except now what about the doublewide.”

“I get the truck is all I know.”

“You’re saying I get the doublewide you get the truck.”

“All I’m saying is that truck out there’s mine.”

“Then what about the boy.”

“For the truck you mean?”

“You mean you’d want him?”

“You mean otherwise?”

“I’m asking are you saying you’d want him.”

“You’re saying you’d want him then.”

“Look I get the doublewide you get the truck we flip for the boy.”

“That’s what you’re saying?”

“Right here and now we flip for him.”

“Let’s see it.”

“For Christ’s sake it’s just a quarter.”

“Just let’s see it.”

“Jesus here then.”

“All right then.”

“I flip you call?”

“Hows about you flip I call?”

“Quit screwing around.”