Still Life by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

Still Life

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be given a brand new Ferrari as a bonus incentive. Dart began to have unexpected visions of a macabre girl with a white ball. While at a film award ceremony, at which he was a guest, he got drunk and appeared to be slowly losing his mind. A stunning woman comforted him, saying she will always be at his side if he chooses. Dart was forced to make a speech, then left and took delivery of his promised Ferrari.

Following a mass arrest at the un-focused campus protest, Mark visited a police station in hopes of bailing out his roommate, Gandolf, from jail. He is told to wait, but after doing so for thirty minutes, he goes to the unprotected lock up area, and asks further about bail for his roommate. Mark is rebuffed and threatened with arrest by the cops, who fortunately for him, have given virtually all of their priorities to the task of filling out the paperwork for all their arrests.

He called out to the arrested students and faculty that they will soon “fly away like an eagle,” and as a consequence for being upbeat is arrested. While being booked, he gave his name as Karl Marx, which a disinterested duty officer typed as "Carl Marx," ostensibly unaware of the absurdity or apathetic toward offbeat attempts at humor. After he is released from jail, Mark and another college friend named Bert, travel a bit in an old woodie and buy firearms from a Cleveland gun shop, saying they