Mystery Train Page #4

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and we arrive in Rome

the day after tomorrow!

I don't know!

How should I know

where I'll stay tonight?

I'm okay!

That's just the way life is.

Ciao! Ciao!

...please pick up

the nearest white courtesy phone.

Please pick up the nearest

white courtesy phone.

- Thank you.

- You have a great day too.

Damn, baby!

Why you wanna do this to me?

Baby, I'll give you all the oil you need.

Just do the right thing.

Send a letter to the congressmen.

Get a petition goin' around.

Get on the phone and try to get

some real men in this government of ours.

Mickey Mantle.

Tim McCarver president. Sure.

Now you're talkin'. Now you're talkin'.

You can do it, Lester.

You could organize this thing.

You got some spare time,

you can change history.

You really think I could?

- Think I could get it done?

- Sure is.

Why don't I get it on and get out

and write some letters, telegrams.

- Go get on and do it.

- Let me give it a try.

- We'll get a petition -

- You can do it, Lester.

letters to senators and congressmen.

- Well, hello, doll.

- Hello.

- What can I do you for?

- I would like to buy this newspaper.

Well, now you should buy

this one here as well.

The Tri-State Defender.

No, thank you.

I think I need only this one.

Well, you know, you only need one leg

to get around on, if that's all you got.

But it sure helps having two.

Now, doesn't it?

Oh, well, yes.

- This one too.

- How about some magazines?

We got all kinds of beautiful

magazines here, you know.

No.

You know them people

who just buy a little paper or two?

They make it real hard for an honest man

to stay in business sometime.

Okay. Give it to me.

This one here has all those high fashions

from abroad...

from New York and everywhere.

Now just hold on a minute, sugar.

See what I got here now.

What do we got?

Movie magazine, home magazine...

muscle magazine, ladies magazine.

And this one here tells you

all about the United States.

No, thank you. No, no.

- We were supposed to meet.

- With me?

I'm not from here. I'm from Rome.

It's Rome. Right.

I'm here by accident.

No accident.

What do you want?

I know about you and the King.

- The king?

- Yeah. Graceland.

I don't understand.

I have a very important message

I'm supposed to deliver.

Okay.

It was almost a year ago this very night.

I was drivin' back to Memphis...

and all evening I kept passin' hitchhikers.

And the strangest thing -

this only dawned on me gradual -

was that they all looked like

the same person.

As I was approachin' Memphis,

I passed another one.

So I decided to stop and pick him up.

And right away, the door opened up,

and this hitchhiker got in.

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