I GOT IT!

"I got it!"

"Got what?"

"I can't fucking believe it! After all this time. I mean, I'm talking like 20 fucking years of madness. Do you know how many times I could've killed myself? It's so fucking simple!"

"What is?"

"You just tell a story."

"Huh?"

"That's it. That's all you gotta do, just tell a fucking story, ya know, like people tell a story. I mean, you gotta do it differently, you know, it's like a totally new world now. But I'm thinking I can kind of layer the whole thing with the dialog, like make it sort of float in between a short story and a poem, but you know, with dialog. Kind of like Sam Shepard but a little more inward and revealing. I mean, you can do so much with dialog, and for me, it just keeps it from being too precious, ya know. Like I'm always reading something and even if it's good, all I keep thinking is that I'm reading something some asshole wrote. Ya know what I mean?"

"Hmmm."

"Oh, but then there's also this way of, you know, like talking directly to the reader like to where it reads sort of like a letter. I mean, to me, Bukowski's letters are by far the best thing he ever wrote. But that's a fine line, you know, that's like really..."

"You know it's 11:30. You're getting Henry right?"