Page 56 - Sweet Embraceable You: Coffee-House Stories

44 Jack Fritscher

Curtis: I’m natural.
John: You’re not normal.
Curtis: I’d rather be natural than normal.
John: I think you’re unemployed.
Curtis: Film companies are hiring only women editors.
John: Go roll out Kweenasheba.
Curtis: Women are chic. From the silent movies on, they’ve
always been the best editors. Dede Allen cuts all of Arthur
Penn’s films: Bonnie and Clyde.
John: I need her to dust up the shop.
Curtis: Kweenasheba?
John: The one, the only, the original.
Curtis: Get off Kweenie’s case.
John: “A case of do or die...”
Curtis: Shut-up.
John: I run this shop.
Curtis: Ada owns this house.
John: So I should shut-up?
Curtis: I’m going to marry Kweenie.
John: You and the Marines.
Curtis: I’m going to marry her and move her out of this house.
John: In a world of terrorists and pay toilets, you want to marry
Kweenasheba?
Curtis: We’d be a team. A couple. Judy and Mickey. Tracy and
Hepburn. Sonny and Cher.
John: A fag and his hag.
Curtis: Those words today are not acceptable.
John: May you have twins. You can name them Butch and Nel-
lie.
Curtis: (Amused) Why do I like you?
John: You think marrying Kweenasheba will make you straight?
Curtis: But I do like you.
John: Your brain’s in neutral. Your mouth idles on.
Curtis: You are a Straight Chauvinist. (Expansively dramatic)
“The Adventures of Macho Man”!
John: Sue me. I’m a white Anglo-Saxon male.
Curtis: Macho do about nothing!

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