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from FRENCH FRIES of Esther Rothchild bearing witness to the morning’s tragedy, as carmen the cashier sings customer orders:
FRENCH FRIES
esther

carmen

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just a cup of tea please
(i figure hot water
and a lipton tea bag
what can they do to it?)

that’ll be all? fir here or t’go?

for here thank you
oh can i have an extra
an extra...

next please with fries? large? zat all?
next please zat with fries?
fir here or t’go?
and to drink?
a lemon thickey?
here’s your change

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she was a nice human being
even if she came from that stinkin family!
a fine person
just wonderful
specially with a husband like what she had

i said to her
i just couldn’t believe myself
i said this five years ago
i said
you don’t hold it against me?
she said
you know better than that
she was GRADE A!
but not her husband with the pointy shoes

is that fir here or t’go?
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susan! sue!
gertie green baum died this morning
GERTIE GREENBAUM
GERTIE GREEN BAUM!
she died this morning

zat fir here or t’go?

you don’t know her?
you’d know her if you saw her
killed
got run over quarter pass ten this morning
they took her away dead

i was talking to jean liz when it happened
you know jean liz!
you know
she came for the bagels yesterday
she’s thin a pleasant face

ehhh
you don’t remember?
okay
i’ll see ya

(she’s not so old
she can’t remember
she knows)

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order’a fries large or small?
some people mustard
some people mayonnaise
some people ketchup

every day on my way to the post office
i have a box
orthopedic clinic said
if you don’t walk
you’ll never walk again

some people vinegar echhhhhh

so on my way i stop in here
well there’s no place else t’go when it’s cold
so we were sittin
jean liz
harriet chapman
talkin
and all of a sudden
this tall kid
looked like a nice boy
roller skates
gertie greenbaum’s walkin with her french fries and an orange drink
always french fries and an orange drink
but she walks like a turtle!
slow
arthritis
and BANG!
that was it
she was down
and she’ll never get up again
he rolled outta here like a fireball

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