Still Life by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

Still Life

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disappeared, and we then saw a view of roadway with a thick wire across it, dripping with blood. Dart had been decapitated. The girl from his vision picked up his severed head and the sun rises once more.

Meanwhile, Daria West, a sweet, pot smoking, post-teenybopper of decent inclinations, was working the cash register at a bakery, where a young male customer asked her if she dug working. Daria replied; “I don’t like dig the boring job, but I like dig the bread. Dig?”

She was driving across the desert towards Phoenix in a 1950s era Buick automobile to meet Clu, her boss, who may or may not also be her lover. Along the way Daria was searching for a man who worked with emotionally disturbed children from Los Angeles, keeping them away from the chaotic city. She found the young boys near a roadhouse in the Mojave desert, but they teased, taunted, and grabbed at her, boldly asking for "a piece of ass,” to which she asks in reply; "Are you sure you'd know what to do with it?"

Daria flees in her car. While filling its radiator with water, she was spied from the air by Mark, who buzzed her car and then flew only fifteen feet over her as she lay face down in the sand. He threw a T-shirt with the Doors on it out of the window