Adios, Nirvana by Conrad Wesselhoeft

Author:Conrad Wesselhoeft
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Chapter 21

When I walk into the Delphi about 1:45 p.m. on Sunday, Dreadlock’s chair is empty. This throws me because she’s always there, and I figure she’s just stepped away. Maybe to tweak her “dreads.”

So I sit in the lounge among the soon-to-die and listen to the laughing TV. Is there a hollower sound in the world? Can death be worse than this?

I wait for her. Wait twenty minutes, but no Dreadlock.

No Dreadlock means no Agnes. No Agnes means no Ruby the Lute.

Ruby rests sadly on my shoulder. Zipped in her gig bag.

A beautiful guitar, like a beautiful girl, needs to be unzipped and plucked.

That is my motto. In Latin:

Guitarus unzippus pluckus.

I’m getting used to playing for Agnes. When everything is right and in tune and my voice is on key, she falls into her chanting. It doesn’t matter what I play—the theme from “SpongeBob SquarePants” or something from American Idiot—Agnes gets into it. She starts her mantra. Claps in time. Chants:

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