Venus Drive by Sam Lipsyte

Author:Sam Lipsyte
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2000-10-14T21:00:00+00:00

The Drury Girl

“Do you want to see it?” said my father.

“Okay,” I said.

“It’s a beaut,” said my father. “You should see it.”

“Okay,” I said.

My father gathered up his gown.

“Look at that stitchwork.”

I looked at the bruises, the blood flecks, the sewn line of the cut.

“Look,” he said. “That’s where they took them.”

“I’m looking,” I said.

My father got sick on our sofa for a while. Sick man’s beard, slippers, ripped robe. Bad days, he slung my old beach bucket in his belt to puke in.

Most days were bad days.

Old buddies chalked him up to dead.

Cousins, clients, called the house to mourn the loss.

His firm sent my mother a cheese wedge, a condolence card, but my father was not dead, he was sick, in the kitchen, sipping broth from a china cup. I brought him a spoon.

“Hey,” he said, “did you check your people today? Check them every day. Be attentive. Unnatural swelling, that’s what you’re looking for.”

“Okay,” I said.

He laid his spoon down.

“I’m going to drink this soup from the cup,” he said. “But that doesn’t mean you can.”

“Okay,” I said.

“Stop saying ‘okay,’” said my father. “Enliven your vocabulary.”

“I will,” I said.

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