1178. COMA-INDUCED DALLIANCE

COMA-INDUCED DALLIANCE

'Come away with me' and all the rest; the billboard

graces the Van Allen belt. Stars high, resplendent in

their small-town sizzle, extirpate everything in the

way. ('I'm sure I heard the music ending, long, long

before it started'). Like this was Jurassic Park.

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We ate the medallions of beef while standing at

the oyster shack. Behind us, the fat Brooklyn surf

beat itself to death on the sand. A signman strolled

by, in a Chaplin bowler hat. 'Eat twice at Neremans!'

it said, 'Once for pleasure, and once for fun!'.

In the basket, an old Jew was throwing dice.

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'It never was like this before!', the guy said. 'When

I was a boy, we could stay here all day, for a nickel!

And I mean all day, and I mean a nickel!'