Restlessness
All of Talent had a restless streak that
seemed to run down the middle of town
like a human version of Main Street.
Rolo’s bones were never satisfactory.
Big Mike had a love/hate thing with Lizzie,
and Harry Reems’ horn embouchure was
a failed memory.
The philologist Carl Hicks was overthinking
everything and prone to depression, while
Tex fixated on the old Fury, drinking damn
near as much as the wag Ted, whose liver
was in “dreadful shape,” according to Doctor
Feilgud, an ancient practitioner and deliverer
of bad news.
Boomer, finally kicked out of school, was
considering a military career when he got
caught stealing beer and played the fool
while hiding in an alley adjacent to Knott’s
Deli, telling the arresting officer that he was
about to go "kill him some Arabs," and wasn’t
that "pretty cool?"
Not to mention poor Rex Dern, surviving on
fish and memories of his ex-wife who, like
Ted’s, left him for a life with a moneyed man.
Oh yes, the restlessness in Talent had finally
reached a peak, and things were nearly out
of hand when Buddy Dooley, an old-school
P.I., mysteriously arrived.
TS
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