I've got to get myself all dolled up once in a while and go downtown to the Stardust Ballroom.
Most of the guys hanging around there are kind of creepy, but they can dance."
She sighed as she looked around. "Tell you what I don't like about a place so goddamned orderly like this.
As an artist... it's the lines that get me. All the straight lines in the walls, on the floors, in the corners that turn into boxes—like coffins.
The only way I can get rid of the boxes is to take a few drinks.
Then all the lines get wavy and wiggly, and I feel a lot better about the whole world.
When things are all straight and lined up this way I get morbid.
Ugh! If I lived here I would have to stay drunk all the time."
Suddenly, she swung around and faced me. "Say, could you let me have five until the twentieth?
That's when my alimony check comes. I usually don't run short, but I had a problem last week."
Before I could answer, she screeched and started over to the piano in the corner. "I used to play the piano.
I heard you fooling around with it a few times, and I said to myself that guy's goddamned good.
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