Smithereens Press Chapbooks 'Zero at the Bone' by David Wheatley | Page 60

What do you think he found, I mean left in the sand?
The riddle of the s –
MCALLISTER
Can we put that one to bed?
I’m finding our little joke has lost its appeal.
It’s not funny now. It was never funny.
MCDONALD
And where’d he get that cut, that cut on his hand?
NEMO
Hey, do I take sugar? Am I some kind of ghost?
MCALLISTER
[Sings.] ‘I’ll come back for the honey... that taste of honey...
Tasting much sweeter... than wine...’ [Stops.] Except sweeter
than that is... [Eyeballs Nemo.] You’re a hallucination of mine,
didn’t I mention? [Eyeballs McDonald.] And you? Is she? Am I?
[Pause. Dazed.] I swear I’ve seen our lighthouse beam on the water.
Live and invent. And it’s been a fine game. I mean,
before we sank this low. A fine game, eh?
MCDONALD
Can you for fuck’s sake wise up? This is no game.
There’s your man. Ask him where Perdue went.
MCALLISTER
[Suddenly bold.] My friend, this is the man who found your goods.
NEMO
My what?
MCDONALD
I what?
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