Wonder Wheel Page #6

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That once brought you to me

I watched the harbor lights

I have something to tell you.

Two things...to tell.

Nothing you could

tell me could put

the slightest shadow

on this evening.

I'm not 35.

I'm 38.

I'm 39.

Well.

That's a very hot age

for a woman.

I'm a very lucky guy.

I-I'm old-older than you.

What's the second thing?

I'm married.

You are?

I have a husband.

And a child from

my first marriage.

You thought uh, you thought

it would spoil everything, right?

Has it?

It's not the first time I found

a married woman beautiful.

I ruined my life by--

by being unfaithful once and

now I'm doing it again.

You brought about your own

downfall by being unfaithful?

It was someone I loved.

A drummer

whose rhythm pulsated with life.

And we married and

had a child and...

he adored me.

And yet...

yet I cou--

couldn't resist the

beautiful young man

in the cast who

played Marchbanks.

God, he wasn't even the

leading man but he--

but he kissed me

onstage every night

and I started looking forward

to those kisses and

and uh...

I wound up in his bed and

and then my-

my husband found out and

and it crushed him.

Oh, he deserved so

much better than me.

I b-I broke his heart.

Humiliated, he ran away.

I didn't blame him for going

as far from me as he could.

And when he left,

I learned for the first

time what love was.

But I was too late.

Because he was gone.

And I started coming apart.

Oh, I-I couldn't act anymore,

I couldn't keep my

mind on my role. I...

I-I-I forget my lines,

miss my cues,

and I drank,

and-and I lost work.

And Harold--

Humpty who was

also a lost soul

met me at a diner and thought

I was the prettiest thing.

The belle of the ball.

And we helped one another

scramble back onto our feet

and it's been five years and-

and I owe him a lot.

But just as I learned from my

first husband what love was...

I...

I learned from Humpty

what it was not.

It's not gratitude,

it's not company.

And it's not going through the

motions of love-making when

you have so much to give

and no one you really

want to give it to.

Coney Island washboard

she would play

And so, it was a

pretty intense summer

and not just the humidity.

I was involved in a relationship

with an older ex-actress--

unhappily married,

and love-starved.

She made up one lie after another

to filch time to see me.

The little thimbles on her

fingers made the noise

She played Charleston

on the laundry for the boys

She could rag a tune

Right through the knees

of a brand new suit

Of Easy Breezers

I've never been to

Greenwich Village.

It's got a lot of meaning

for me, all the

artists and writers

I love hung out here

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