Smithereens Press Chapbooks 'Zero at the Bone' by David Wheatley | Page 16

MCALLISTER
[With mock indignation.] I haven’t done fuck all
to deserve this!
MCDONALD
So how did they get in your pants?
MCALLISTER
The wildlife officer has a cardboard box.
He ties these cardboard boxes to the plants.
We have to stop any breeding, stop the cycle...
MCDONALD
That’s about the only breeding goes on
around here.
MCALLISTER
I hear your bedposts rattle at night.
MCDONALD
My fleas and yours do go at it all right.
MCALLISTER
No, even our fleas jerk off. This place is the dead zone.

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