Q: I sometimes imagine t I am in Pest Control. I e truck e jump suit  pocket. I park truck in front of a subscribers neat tract ter of deadly pest-killer from truck, and o t door. C side tanding t;Pest Control,quot; I say. S me, I smile back and move past o to ted kitcer is suspended by a sling from my rig  t to spray. I spray alongside tor, alongside tcable. Next, I move to ting for me to finiso tting room and spray discreetly be pieces of furniture, an oak sideboard, a red plusorian coucudy, spraying beers ing ty-five-incelevision. ter bedroom requires just touc bursts in  o eigs big acked s and too fold. Maybe tear a properly-made-out receipt from my receipt book and present it to te space and  back to me. tinks quite palpably but I knoence in to four s me to ting, pins a silver medal on my c and kisses me on bot Control!

    Four oclock in ten?ing to one of e  Coltrane.

    quot;t; one says, and ts in to say, quot;Yea  a minute.quot;

    A oody S disturbing t loood. Nos is praising D flat. quot;tC,quot; t says. quot;ItC is a nes just getting started in LA. tting ne; t orotund.

    quot;Great one,quot; says one of ton Marsalis track is over.

    quot;A lot of y,quot; says t;I mean  all.quot;

    Simon suddenly remembers putting on ers sook o nursery sc in t on ?ted to foot. quot;Make your toes little,quot; hem.

    quot;Nec; t;but ty.quot;

    -germ bubble gum was served

    At the Maniacs Ball

    fully for an  six -s and jeans, moving around tment. till sleeping.  of treet a man in violet running ss is carrying a ies, ttle younger. ts six-ty.

    to get times tibule, a barely breated blood and blood is all over tile. Simon she man again. No response.

    tal at tops a resident on to etuck in - pocket.

    quot;t in good s;

    tor looks annoyed.

    quot;Call nine one one.quot;

    quot;I tter look at ty far gone.quot;

    itance tor, a small man aco tibule. aking care not to touch him.

    quot;Call tal. Somet;

    .

    quot;Drunk, too.quot;

    Simon trudges back upstairs and telepal.

    AND oget tet?  if o?get a rate less precipi?tant ter-century advantage, in terms of raddling. u?dents say,  kind of old ladies ing a book. tended medi?tation on t;or,quot; or t taken, or taken but not enjoyed, or taken and en?joyed to t, a celebration of quot;orquot; not less fun-some te ters. I  not e ter. quot;Good ; I o Veronica, clapping imes to signal y congratulation. quot;t type. . .quot; t in Bulmer, a typeface most eloquent, anorexic Bodoni but speaking nevertoddy as I sit by ts of tequila laced tle gunpo. Ill place my cla manipulation of table. t home.

    Dore o knoo. I dont kno erday, more or less. You call t tover, a single yelloe tor of life. Yes, s anyt by implication, you implied t ! Ill say, or scream, I al turn out badly, consult t transcript, you  to --

    Anne

    quot;ItS t of men. As a group.quot;

    quot;t  us to bloom and flo;

    quot;trying to keep all ty for a feed individuals. Men.quot;

    quot;Ive endured it on every side.quot;

    quot;ies aken glee and satisfaction from ing and scourging me.quot;

    quot;t I ;

    quot;tearing me apart ions t ;

    quot;I tlasses.quot;

    quot;t is a burden to me.quot;

    quot;Stick a scre if you mess ;

    quot;Gotta get t birds nest on t;

    quot;You can start, in America,  a nickel, and pretty soon you ;

    quot;Ive been busy, sorting buttons, one t;

    quot;Polisting t of t;

    quot;A feo c;

    quot;Used to be able to stay up all nig do t no;

    quot;asly, bubbling in responses to forms and questionnaires.quot;

    quot;e c ced t of little green ;

    quot;Yea one.quot;

    quot;Guy came up to me on treet, black guy, er for an American citizen? quot;

    quot;You gave it to ;

    quot;?quot;

    quot;Caugive squeeze.quot;

    quot;Pink alruck me as sordid.quot;

    quot; ttle spots on ;

    quot;Burns. From cooking fried c;

    quot;If men kne;

    quot;Older people sreated , not muc some.quot;

    quot;ts really a very fine attitude to.quot;

    quot;Its o be brigoo old.quot;

    quot;You can accidentally s your dog. Ive kno.quot;

    quot;Old men e  ;

    quot;I dreamed about t nig it in Simons room.quot;

    quot;t trade Center.quot;

    quot;If t  ;

    quot;From Brooklyn, to oo do is .quot;

    quot;treet already. e  kno;

    quot;t in tones. e  kno;

    quot;If te you t;

    quot;No you o s in tomacy-tomac;

    quot; te your domestic animals, your cats and dogs, and tic animals bite you. Or te otic animals and even?tually somebody bites you. Or your c;

    quot;Im going to stay off treets.quot;

    quot;No just s. t.quot;

    quot; does a skunk look like? Ive never seen one.quot;

    quot;It looks like a  t it  kind of tenuated. t;

    quot;Ive only seen t;

    quot;Maybe we s c;

    quot;I tting into a panic  s.quot;

    quot;Let Simon deal ;

    quot;Do you t;

    quot;No I dont t I t.quot;

    quot;If  w ;

    quot; it realistically.quot;

    quot;o stop introduc?ing o people as my ;

    quot;ts not unreasonable.quot;

    quot;One day t be any ;

    quot;Or ;

    quot;Just free units cruising t;

    quot;Someto look foro.quot;

    quot;Do you really t;

    quot; about t;

    quot;Get one and keep it. Keep it for yourself.  and teac t;

    quot;But t kind of qual?ity, t kind of rougy. . .quot;

    quot;I forgot about boys.quot;

    quot;Reminds me of tacked on truck, ;

    quot;;

    quot; leave ;

    quot;;

    quot; t;

    quot;Its an impossible situation.quot;

    quot;But I like it.quot;

    quot;t.quot;

    quot;Its like t time.quot;

    quot;But well never see ;

    quot;ell send postcards.quot;

    quot;Little satisfaction in t.quot;

    quot;ell you cant ;

    quot;Sometter t;

    quot;t o ions.quot;

    quot;ell Ive learned to make progress, you o give up somet;

    quot;s true?quot;

    quot;It sounds rig includes pain.quot;

    quot;I ; Simon says. quot;Not a  of  some ons of o function. Got to t everyt. I dont ts condescending. I s not condescending. Ive dealt augo roll . Stempting it already,  s got it rig even bricklayers get trasting brick, vary ttern of retcs. I dont  to be condescending. trees egrity, cant go far ree. You  to make a building look good, budget rees. A bird in tree is better ts all I mean. t.quot;

    quot;Simon, I dont  to go,quot; Anne says.

    quot;I dont  you to go.quot;

    quot;But I o.quot;

    quot;I understand t. But you could be foolis;

    quot;Youd get tired of me.quot;

    quot;No. t around and celevision. ts all I ask.quot;

    quot;ts not true.quot;

    quot;I ask you, formally, to stay. ill you stay?quot;

    quot;No.quot;

    quot;?quot;

    quot;It  .quot;

    quot;e could enjoy it for a s time. Migwo w;

    quot;You make it sound like a cancer situation. It  be fair to t;

    quot;o t;

    SIMON fleo Norto inspect a job on-Salem, a al. truction e good and tle to com?plain of. ration, done by  an agreeable nig day. mate . S, s in C t Benning, loved America, spoke  seemed to Simon a texas accent. ed a candy store in Frankfurt. talked about pregnancy and delivery, about  a danger to taxis. Sances and told  to attempt to take over Mexico next. e ed Mexico, she said.

    Over tlantic on to Kennedy Simon sae floating scruff. ter became agitated at points as fistacked turned o compaction. old  alt feel very lucky at t, she was very lucky.

    quot;I got to go a; Dore says. quot;I got to leave t;

    quot;I gots to make ma; says Veron?ica.

    quot;t Zepo me in a dream,quot; Anne says. quot;! Split!quot;

    quot;time boogies on,quot; Dore says.

    ts of optimistic gloom.

    quot; Bye guys,quot; Simon says.

    the door.

    Q: Maybe theyll come back.

    A: No, no. Of course not. hey?

    Q: Do you  to come back?

    A: I  I sleep very well, on balance.

    Q: ?

    A: Four or five.

    Q: Some people like Giacometti. As a sculptor. Al?ts fooliso speak of quot;likingquot; Gia?cometti. Armature igo.  about women.

    A: Yes  a razor in his shoe.

    Q: Do you  some of ttle green ones? to be good.

    A: I t.

    Q: Feels like Saturday today, I dont know why. . .

    A: It does feel a bit like Saturday. . .

    Scan Notes, v4.0: Proofed very carefully, italics intact.  In many places, tuation may seem incorrect or missing, but t   so blame eitam or Bart me.