“I’ve got to run like the dickens to keep from falling...wheel is humming, buzzing, cyclometer clicking out the tempo...what a floor show, rebel generalissimo, oh no say it isn’t so, I left my gland in San Francisco, once again here I go, writing songs in the undertow, Doctor Rat incognito, wearing false mustachio, what an impresario, drum shaking like a volcano, whoa you fucker, I said whoa, can’t stop it, it’s got to flow, rebel plot to overthrow, take this part pianissimo, not so fast, please, adagio, sonofabitch what vertigo, image rising from down below, intuitive signal bright rainbow, whale thinks he’s Fats Domino, if only I had a torpedo… “
Kotzwinkle. (contented sigh)
Maybe I’ll read this one out loud to my daughters the way my stepfather read me The Fan Man—Kotzwinkle on a tear begs to be read aloud.
i’ve been reading treasure island out loud to my son, and just recently realized that i have a superb pirate voice (i miss ‘talk like a pirate day’...).
I feel giddy.