Soul of a Whore and Purvis

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    What’d you call your outfit there in Dallas,
    Church of the Holy Sacred Bank Account?
    Ripped of your congregation, shot a guy,
    Landed up in Huntsville, where I work:
    I bet I’ve seen you, out there in the fields
    Hacking with a hoe (—excuse me, ma’am!),
    Slaving away with black-eyed Susans winkin’
    And stinkin’ like a Dallas trollop (—’scuse me!);
    Suspected dealer, quantity cocaine—
    BILL JENKS : O yeah, I shot a man. He didn’t die.
    I get the chance again—who knows?
    WILL : You’d think a guy would sense his status!—Yeah,
    They had you on with Ron the Levitator
    And that frog-voice freak transvestite with a lisp
    Driving his spangled automatic wheelchair,
    Jimmy—
    NURSE :               Boggs! “The Singer of the South”!
    You oughta heal his singing !
    BILL JENKS :                                      There are limits.
    WILL : I have to say, he does look like he’s healed.
    Healed by whom, by use of which powers,
    I couldn’t guess. Or even healed of what.
    But, anyway, he’s acting different now.
    BILL JENKS : That’s right. He ran a marathon last month.
    WILL : That’s right. He came in way behind the pack.
    BILL JENKS : That’s right, and running on two legs. His spangled
    Wheelchair graces our museum now.
    WILL : They mentioned that—You have your own museum!
    BILL JENKS : Most of one. Construction’s under way.
    WILL : Construction’s stalled, according to Sixty Minutes ,
    Stalled while the IRS and FTC
    Shine a light on your money.
    BILL JENKS :                                    Let it shine,
    There ain’t a lot to see.
    WILL :                                       You claim you’re clean.
    BILL JENKS : Nope. I just claim there isn’t any money.
    SIMON : THERE’S NEVER BEEN A SWEETER RIDE TO HELL
    BILL JENKS : This one’s getting agitated now.
    STACY : I take it you’re a husband-and-wife team?
    BILL JENKS : We are as siblings.
    WILL :                                        Ooh, you two are juicy.
    SIMON : I’ll climb back up your cunt and suck your mind
    The way we used to do when we were lovers
    JAN : Simon! Shame on you!
    STACY :                                  Well, talk about a mouth!
    BILL JENKS : You recognize him, don’t you? Yes. You do.
    MASHA : It’s him. It’s him.
    STACY :                                Do you eat with that mouth?
    DOC : Actually, he’s nourished through this tube.
    MASHA : I’m free of you! You hear? Leave me alone!
    WILL : Just grab his scrotum there to shut him up.
    Just reach on out—go on—and shake the hand
    Of the old banana, with a manly grip.
    NURSE : Doctor Nasum, please, this doesn’t seem—
    WILL : Take hold! There can’t be any harm in it,
    Right? Big deal, as far as he’s concerned…
    I used to get him down and drool a strand—
    Now this’ll git ’im, if he’s there a-tall—
    And slurp it back—
    NURSE :                                  Now, what on earth !—
    WILL :                                                                            Aha!
    STACY : You can’t spit in a coma person’s face!
    WILL : You get a pain response? Huh, buddy? There!
    NURSE : For goodness’ sakes alive, he’s hurting him!
    They restrain him, DOC and NURSE taking either arm.
    WILL : The point is that I’m not. He doesn’t

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