Two for the Seesaw Page #2
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Mostly walking, by day and by night.
- Monotonous but healthy.
- When do you sleep?
No time. Who were the kids
that kept you busy till 6.30?
Huh? Oh, a dance group.
They thought maybe
I'd have an idea for costumes.
- Did you?
- Sure, success, I got the job.
I loaned the choreographer 75 cents
but I'll make a few bucks
on the costumes.
- It's your livelihood?
- A little of this and that.
The rest, unemployment insurance.
So, what do you do?
What did you do in Nebraska?
- I was an attorney.
- Oh.
- You gonna practice law here?
- I've no plans yet, been too busy walking.
- Everything fine?
- Thank you.
Try one, it's from heaven.
No! Dip in the bug juice.
Gittel? Sounds exotic.
- What is it? Italian? Eskimo?
- Jewish!
- Mosca?
- That's exotic.
My stage name.
My real one's too long. Moskowitz.
- You act?
- Dance.
- Given it up?
- Given it up? It's what I am!
God, I studied with Jos for years.
- Jos who?
- You kidding? Lemien. The best!
- It's important to you?
- If not, I wasted a lot of 7.50s a week!
So...
What's it like in Nebraska?
I've never been out of New York.
From the Bronx to Manhattan to Brooklyn,
this is your life, Gittel Mosca.
I had the money even. Miami.
I got married,
he went to Florida, I got divorced...
- You too?
- You married?
My wife's divorcing me back in Omaha.
- A lantsman.
- Huh?
A buddy from the same country.
How long did yours last?
- Twelve years.
- Big deal.
- She get a yen for another guy?
- No, a yen to see the end of me.
Look, do you really want to see a show?
I'm not sure. It bother you talking
about marriage and divorce?
Oh, no.
I was thinking about something else.
How to decide whether
we really want to see a show?
- Cross-examine us, you're the lawyer.
- Please, this is more exotic.
Watch, you have to be a bat
to find your way around.
Some of my best friends are bats.
I'm not entirely stable myself.
- (crash)
- So why didn't you listen?
lt'd make no difference.
Over 60% of accidents occur in the home.
Not including ruptured marriages.
Be safe, be homeless.
Getting run over in the street's better.
Coke, beer or seltzer?
- You?
- Warm milk.
Warm milk? I may be too old for you.
I'll have a sophisticated Coke.
It's got caffeine,
I'll give you a beer, it's more relaxing.
Don't be a nurse. Sorry. I spent twelve
years being treated like a patient.
I was worried about,
coddled, humoured.
- Your wife?
- A great little caretaker called Tess.
I've been cared for till I'm in shreds.
- Coke. Leave the chips to fall.
- OK. You don't sleep so you won't sleep.
Make it a beer.
Let's start all over, Jerry. Coke or beer?
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