The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards Page #2

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bounce or you are out

Charlie:
Okay!

Boy #1:
Sound simple enough?

Charlie:
Yeah I guess.

Bobby:
So, where you from?

Charlie:
Uhm, Chicago

Bobby:
Chicago. What is your

favorite food?

Charlie:
Anything I guess really

Bobby:
Tacos?

Charlie:
I guess

Bobby:
Yeah the rest of the game

though, you have to stand right here

against the wall, but you cannot

move.

You cannot move. Stay still!

Stay!

Stay!

Charlie:
So just like this? I

thought, am I -

yep, yes, just back up against

the wall and stay here

okay

boy:
You're doing great

Charlie:
Good one

Bobby:
Do not move!

Stay

dad:
Hey, the new Mexico outlaw is back.

How was your first day at school?

Mom:
Make any new friends?

It is okay if he did not. I did

not make any my first year either

I was just asking. Did you

honey?

Charlie:
Yeah

Charlie:
Are you going to lose

all your hair?

What?

Charlie:
In my book, it says, when you have

this disease, you could lose all your hair

dad:
Oh you are a doctor now.

Let us have a look.

Don not read books like this.

Narrator:
As months went by, I

remember trying to do something -

narrator:
Anything. Whatever I could

do to help my father win his fight.

And suddenly, like a disease,

word spread around school.

Dad:
You know they say the cubs could go

all the way this year. All the waaaay!

Dad:
I have been thinking about this disease.

It is like a bunch of uninvited guests.

You did not ask them to come. They just

showed up one day and did not go home.

Bobby:
Dad die yet Charlie?

Teacher:
I can't believe you

did that...

Teacher:
Come on kids let us go.

Dad:
Charlie

dad:
You want to explain

yourself?

Dad:
This fight that I am

having is mine. You understand?

Mom:
Charlie

narrator:

His fight was also mine

I am much older now, but a part of

me is still in that bed beside him.

The other part back

on that playground,

hoping that fight

put me back together again.

Amanda:
Pelicans can fly three

thousand miles without stopping

in the first world war-pelicans

transported supplies across enemy lines

narrator:
Amanda peeled labels,

chewed nails, ate the caps off pens

twice she tried to kill herself

I used to think we would be best

friends forever and not just sisters

that was before dad died

before she went to rehab for the

third time

before I moved far away from

the mess I used to call home

Lisa:
Hey you know uh, we were

invited over to Timmy later

Amanda:
I do know

what? I talk to him. He is my

ex-boyfriend

Lisa:
Yeah after he was mine

Amanda:
I have no problem with

leftovers

it does not even make any sense,

saying I drink like a fish

it is like saying I read like a

word

Lisa:
Amanda, who said you

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