Across The Universe Page #5

- Let's hear it for the Po Boys, y'all.

Do you wanna go out

and get some fresh air?

- Yeah?

- How about another one?

- All right, bring it home!

- All right!

Man, it's packed in there.

Your girlfriend didn't look too happy

about us leaving together.

She... She's not my girlfriend.

Well, you know, she's a friend

who's a girl.

I thought you'd gone home.

No, no. I like it here.

Although I'm not really here.

You know, without a visa

I don't officially exist.

It's exhilarating in a way. It's like

a weird kind of freedom. You know?

Hey.

Are you okay?

I mean, you know,

I heard what happened.

Yeah.

But...

...a letter came for Max

before I left home...

...and I haven't been able

to bring myself to give it to him yet.

- Scrub the floor, right, Jo-Jo?

- That's disgusting.

That was great, man.

You got a really good sound.

You shouldn't have

dropped out of college, Max.

Your sister's right. You had that

whole lvy League thing going for you.

- And your father's a lawyer and sh*t.

- Max, what exactly does it say?

It says I have to report to

an induction center on the 7th.

Bummer.

You got a week to contract

some fatal disease.

Guys tried all kinds of stuff

when I did my time.

- You were in the military, Jo-Jo?

- No escaping it where I'm from.

I went in when I was 17.

Say you're a homo.

They don't take homos.

Just say you're a pedophile.

Say you wanna go into the villages...

...and you wanna rape and pillage

all the little girls that look like me.

I remember this one cat.

He ate a ton of beets

the night before the physical.

- Looks like blood when you piss.

- Well, I hate beets.

- Can we get the check, please?

- In a minute.

- What is with these pricks?

- Calm down.

My mate's brother swallowed

a ball of cotton to get out the army.

What does that do?

It shows up as, like,

a shadow on the x-ray.

- Track marks. They won't take a junkie.

- You want him to shoot up?

No. We could just jab his arm

with a needle a few times.

Make it a rusty needle.

Then it'll get infected.

- That could work.

- Yeah. Gets all nasty.

- Max.

- Oh, man, Max, what are you doing?

You can burn that paper, boy...

...but you still gotta show.

Daniel couldn't wait to go.

He saw it as his patriotic duty.

And I went along with it.

I was proud of him, I guess.

Apparently, he did

something brave...

...so he wore a medal

when they buried him.

You don't have to talk about this.

I want to.

I can't pretend like it didn't happen.

He was my first boyfriend.

He was the first person

I ever knew to die.

I'd never even been

to a funeral before.

I'm so scared for Max.

Listen, no one and no gun

is gonna get Max.

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