Straight Time Page #4

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get around other influences and stuff.

You're on parole now, Max.

Well, you really shouldn't even

be seen with Willy, right?

I think I get the message.

You make me feel bad.

Why? You're just doing

what you have to do, Selma.

It's no problem.

It's cool.

This is it.

-Here. Let me get it.

-I'll get the front.

-You sure?

-Yeah.

-All right. It's three flights up.

-I gotta piss, so you'd better run.

All right.

Remember that place called The Hague?

Right across from the Cocoanut Grove.

-Where do you want it?

-Put it underneath the bed there.

Every time I was there, Hampton Hawes

and Chet Baker were playing there.

-Is it still open?

-I don't know.

-Three flights of stairs killed me.

-Go back in the joint, you'll get in shape.

-Hold it up.

-I got it.

-You sure it don't have termites?

-It's okay.

How does it feel?

That's the main thing.

It's good, isn't it?

I know where we could go.

-The Autoway Club.

-The what?

The Autoway Club. Remember that?

We used to go there?

-We could go.

-Do a little f***ing around, maybe.

Yeah. Maybe we could

go to Hermosa Beach too.

Oh, yeah.

-Howard Rumsey...

-Yeah.

...and his Lighthouse All-Stars.

All right, let's go there. Maybe there'll be

some nice little girls there I can....

You can get me three years for that.

Sorry.

I got excited, that's all.

Does Selma know you're using?

Well, she's always suspicious.

The machine broke down,

so I gotta stay.

What do you want me to tell you?

I'll probably be about two or three hours.

Well, I'm glad.

All right. Bye.

-Hello. Jenny Mercer speaking.

-Hi. How you doing? This is Max Dembo.

Thank you for making me

a bona fide member of society.

Oh, you got the job? That's great.

-Why don't you have dinner with me?

-When?

I could be there in an hour and a half.

I wanna go home and shower and change.

Actually, I was planning on

staying home tonight.

It's just that it's the first chance I have

to celebrate something.

You know? I want to--

You know, I wanna have a steak.

I thought you could keep me company.

-I don't even know what to order.

-Okay.

-Is that okay?

-Yeah.

All right, can I be at your office,

let's say about 5:30?

-See you then.

-All right.

-Bye.

-Bye-bye.

All I'm saying is, out here, the rules

aren't defined. On the inside, they are.

If you don't pay back your debts, if you

owe a couple packs of cigarettes...

...if you take somebody's glove or

if you lie to someone, then you get killed.

You know that's the rules,

so you live by them.

You can get killed with a sharp edge...

...the end of this spoon.

That's a lethal weapon.

Even the end of a toothbrush.

You can get hit in the yard

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