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Sunday, January 31st, 2010

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    12:50a
    He thinks of his father for the first time in a...
    He thinks of his father for the first time in a year or two, remembers his death a few years ago and relives a little of the anxiety it had caused himAfter midnight he gets up on an impulse and walks the streets, ending up in an alley where he becomes drunk in a bar
    There is a little man pawing himSignor Maggiore you come home with me now?
    He staggers along dimly aware of what he wants, but he does not find itIn another alley the little man and a confederate jump him, strip his pockets, and leave him to awaken in the harsh glare, the quick stench of the sun on a garbage-filled alley in RomeHe makes it back to his hotel dolce gabbana handbags without too many people seeing him, changes his clothes, takes a bath, and goes to bed for over a dayHe feels as if he is breaking apart

    I must confess, your Reverence, that I have admired the Church for many yearsIn the immensity of your conception lies your greatness
    The Cardinal bows his headI am pleased to give you an audience, my sonYou have done good work alreadyI have heard of your labors in Paris against the Antichrist
    I labored for my country(In this setting the words cause him no embarrassment
    There is a nobler labor
    I am aware of it, your ReverenceThere are times when I feel a great weariness
    You may be omega speedmaster leather preparing for an important change
    Sometimes I think soI've always looked upon your Church with admiration
    He walks through the great courtyard of the Vatican, stares for a long time at the dome of StThe ceremony he has just heard has moved him, sent music lapping through his brain
    Maybe I should turn

    But on the boat going back he thinks of other things, reads with quiet satisfaction in the newspaper he has brought on board that Leeway Chemical is opening negotiations with Sallevoisseux Frères
    Man, I'll be glad to get back from frog-land and the wops, one of the officers who has been on the mission says to him
    That Italy's a gucci men wallet backward country even if they say Musso did a lot for itYou can still keep itThe Catholic countries are the ones who are always backward
    He thinks clearly for a few minutesThe thing that happened in the Rome alley is a danger sign, and he will have to be very careful from now onIt must never come out againThe Church business is understandable in its light, a highly impractical move at this junctureI'll be a colonel soonI can't risk it turning
    Cummings looks at the waterSlowly his eyes raise, include the horizongeneral?
    If there's a war soon it'll helpThe politicos were even more important
    He must not commit himself chloe politically yetThere would be too many turnsIt might be Stalin, it might be HitlerBut the eventual line to power in America would always be anticommunism
    He must keep his eyes open, Cummings decided


    Chorus:
    WHAT IS A MILLION-DOLLAR WOUND?

    The latrine, early morningIt is a six-holer off in the bushes at one end of the bivouac, and is without a tarpaulinAt either end is a stick with a roll of paper on it, and a tin can covering it

    GALLAGHER: Some fuggin mornings like this I wish I'd catch a bullet
    WILSON: Only goddam trouble with that is you can't pick the spot
    STANLEY: You know if you could, the Army wouldn't be keeping me coco chanel black wallet l

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