Carrousel

We were on the way to the carrousel. We kept getting closer and closer to the carrousel and you could start to hear that nutty music it always plays. It was playing ’Oh, Marie!’ it played that same song about fifty years ago when I was a little kid. that’s the one thing about carrousels, they always play the same songs. When she was a tiny little kid, and Allie and D.B. and I used to go the park with her, she was mad about the carrousel. You couldn’t get her off the goddam thing. There were a few kids riding on it, mostly very little kids. I went up and bought her a ticket. She was looking at me sort of funny. You could tell she wasn’t too sore at me anymore. I went and sat down on the bench, and she went and got on the carrousel. She walked around it. I mean she walked once all the way around it. I watch her go around and around. All of a sudden she gave me a kiss. She reached in my coat pocket and took out my red hunting hat put it on my head. She go back on the horse. She waved to me and I waved back. Boy, I began to rain like a bastard. I got pretty soaked. I felt so damn happy all of a sudden, the way old Phoebe kept going around and around. I don’t know why. It was just that she looked so damn nice. I wish you could have been there.