Its the morning.

    Biser is ill, stomache couch.

    Bisoo is ill, cing, a flu.  sleep. In bed, ens to tie is fifteen and spends th him every year.

    Outside on treet, someone kicks on a motorcycle and revs it unforgivingly. his bedroom is badly placed.

    o-Bismol, if sry tylenol. , pulls -s away from .

    t. teady, friendly air-conditioner ling in t room.

    Earlier aken o a doctor,  a bellyac; tor said, quot;stick  doesnt go a; Katie is beautiful, tall h dark hair.

    In ternoon to a  aking over ty. At vivid moments s s into his back. he moved away.

    ogetreet sakes igime aen people give them peculiar looks.

    of  feting in tersection . quot;t;

    y-nine. riting a ory of 19tury American painting, about wwo.

    Not enough.

    A groan, felt but muted, from ther room. Shes awake.

    s up and goes in to look at e cotton robe sucked up under ;I just t; she says.

    quot;Did it ;

    quot;A little.quot;

    sometold   of tree.

    quot;Do you  to try a glass of milk?quot;

    quot;I dont  any milk,quot; surning to lie on . quot;Sit ;

    s on t;terrific,quot; ;Lets get your mind off your stomac fis time you tel keys out of t; Once, in Paris, s t, from a sixtins  of el keys buried in ted plant outside tel door.

    quot;Daddy,quot; s looking at him.

    quot;Yes?quot;

    quot;;

    quot;o live ;

    quot;You could find somebody. Youre ;

    quot;Os very neat. I t;

    quot;You dont try.quot;

    t true.

    quot;;

    quot;One eig;

    quot;You could lose some weig;

    quot;Look, kid, gimme a break.quot; s ;You  some cambric tea?quot;

    quot;Youve given up.quot;

    quot;Not so,quot; ;Katie, go to sleep no big pile of Gucci ;

    Surns her head away.

    Biso tcurns on t.  a drink o  o sleep?  it. urns on tiny kitcV and spends a fees cer movie. ter is picking up fully, eating t tokyo. ten t from underneaterror. ;You no butterfly on me?quot; s. oniso learn t quot;butterflyquot; meant, in tois of time, quot;abandon.quot; S in a nic of  Stars amp; Stripes. One day a . Bision LEADING LADIES. ter sergeant or brougo back to Bis;e cant do t; ;Aint it a s;

    cs Dolly Parton singing, by coincidence, quot;;

    At some point during eac; up?quot;

    quot;It ,quot; ;Yours. You made too muc ; old Katie tion for t it until its untrut.

    y, too.

    I can do.

    alking do Broadurday afternoon. Barking art caged in te galleries, dont go inside or itll get you, leap into your lap and cover your face o treme, snarls and ss brilliant teet I   you if you dont  me. Citizens parading, plump-faced and bone-faced, ligoting a Board of Education trombone case. A fello  over his shoulder.

    Bisy dollars in  in case o buy a pal a drink.

    Into a gallery because it must be done. tists y EVERLASt ed to rouble. Biso resist, bangs one , and s his hand.

    Bloody artists.

    Out on treet again, o by a man, ts isher friend, Malcolm.

    quot;;

    quot;Professor,quot; ).

    not muc om. Malcolm is t c.

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    over it.

    quot;ty-t t boter.quot;

    Standing beiful young woman.

    quot;tie,quot; Malcolm says. quot;eve just given  eaten all t;

    Bisely seized by a desire to cook for Cie -- eit-Bean Soup or .

    Selling  her windows.

    quot;I dont care but w;

    S and is deeply tanned , tV.

    ill talking about t. quot;I mean ation on batrends.quot;

    quot;ell maybe ;

    tover duck in tor .

    quot;ell,quot; o Cie, quot;are you ;

    quot;Yes,quot; s;I am.quot;

    quot;e just ate,quot; ;You cant be  possibly be ;

    quot;; saking Bis, sticking out.

    Putting slices of duck in bean er c;tures of Robin ; cV. At time he FM.

    quot;I like a place able.

    Bisaking quick glances at o see .

    al note to buy some Mazola -- a case, maybe.

    quot;y seconds on fenders,quot; says the radio.

    quot;Do you live ; Cie asks.

    quot;My daugimes. Summers and Cmas.quot; A little tarragon into ter. quot; you?quot;

    quot;t;

    But to be. Biseadfastly hree Sheep brand Chinese chopper, made in gray Fusan.

    quot;ist.quot;

    As ; kind of an artist?quot;

    quot;A painter. tle. ;

    o ter, tomato paste.

    quot;ake?quot; Cie asks. quot;Im not rus curious.quot;

    quot;Anot;

    quot;ttle vodka. Straig mind.quot;

    Bishop loves women who drink.

    Maybe she smokes!

    quot;Actually I cant stand artists,quot; she says.

    quot;Like ;

    quot;Like t woman ws comac;

    quot;S do t any more. And t poorly placed.quot;

    quot;And t ots off parts of tles on  fries my ass.quot;

    quot;Its supposed to.quot;

    quot;Yea; s;Im reacting like a bozo.quot;

    Ss up and o ter and takes a Lark from his pack.

    Very o talk. ells  t before ten up and cment, kno a pier ing it . urned on tV to get tered ts of a Ric;Brocks Last Casequot; cc il five oclock in te actors in told o convey, edly, but you ter bear in mind y damn sure going to bounce back up and batter your conk --

    quot;Redford is t; she says.

    Bisand this. he nods seriously.

    quot;t Redford is,quot; sen minutes sells  Robert Redford.

    astes t .

    It appears t sy fond of Clint Eastwood.

    Bis tion rayed, like a bad coh.

    quot;Old Clint East; ;ere ready.quot;

    and fetc bread from the oven.

    quot;tastes like real cassoulet,quot; she says.

    quot;ts tail soup mix.quot;  in summer? Its .

    tle of Robert Mondavi table red.

    quot;Very good,quot; s;I mean Im surprised. Really.quot;

    quot;Maybe could omato.quot;

    quot;No, really.quot; Sears off a fistful of Frenc;Men are quite odd. I sa t on Union Square on Saturday? anding in front of a table full of greens and radis, bearing at t-offs and a tank top and every time so grab a cabbage or  ting a s of s, e pretty -- I mean  be?quot;

    quot;Moderate amount of fun. Some fun. Not muc can I say?quot;

    quot;And t plug I live ;

    quot; about ;

    quot;;

    quot; ?quot;

    quot;Book about o fix  me a scre;

    quot;ell.quot;

    quot;I fixed took me t;

    quot;ould you like to go to bed no;

    quot;No,quot; Cie says, quot;not yet.quot;

    Not yet! Very happily, Bishop pours more wine.

    Notle c intervals. s a s from ts in tc draped around yle. ie turning restlessly on the couch.

    is, ts done tle tle nagging, a little lets-go-take-a-look and Biss,  black diablo numbers t ss. . .

    ell,  give s.

    Could c.

    e.

    quot;Daddy?quot;

    Still , s up and goes into ther room.

    quot;I cant sleep.quot;

    quot;Im sorry.quot;

    quot;talk to me.quot;

    Biss again on the couch. how large she is!

    ory lecture.

    quot;t Mo-net and Ma-net, ts a little tricky, Mo-net er lilies and s,  ,  Bonnard, eriors and s, amazing lig Van Guk, , and Say-zanne, , you get Kandinsky, a bad moticks pictures, you get my man Mondrian, angles and s,  Moic t, you get Mar-cel Du-c;

    Shes asleep.

    Biso tchen and makes himself a drink.

    Its five-ty. Faint lighe big windows.

    Cies in Seattle, and plans to stay.

    Looking out of times see t ic or o save electricity.