Thursday, June 12, 2003

Koo. rolling sixes, wins the ukulele made from a turtle shell and a pair of overalls off of Matthew Haney and then he wanders down the road into Dos Passos. Dos Passos like any town full of dogs taught to bark at strangers and Negros and some of them dogs bark at Koo, but they do it sorta quiet and nervous, and then they come up to him with their tails down. Most of the dogs just take up position on Koo's rear and flank, sneering at each other a little in the way of country dogs, and by the time Koo makes it to Beaudrillard and Elgin, where the lamp post is, Koo's got himself about thirteen or fourteen disciple dogs. Koo's plunking on that ukulele and the dogs are grooving. Koo sits down under that lamp post and his first twenty six hours in Dos Passos are spent there, plunking on the ukulele for them dogs. Now Sheriff Scott has taught the citizenry of Dos Passos to be very suspicious of vagrants because vagrants Sheriff Scott likes to bust and send out to work on the Proposed Highway. So it's not long before someone calls the Sheriff's office and tells them that there's this sun-burnt fella sitting out under a lamp post on the corner of Beaudrillard and Elgin plunking a turtle ukulele and surrounded by dogs. A couple of deputies drive out and park on Elgin and watch Koo for awhile. Then one says to the other: "I ain't gonna mess with this. That son of a bitch Scott ain't paying me enough to die." 1:29:38 PM    comment []