OKAY, OKAY,
I begged,
trying to hold him off,
trying to avoid being knotted up again.
Look,
they killed Shawn
last night, Uncle Mark.
And . . .
And today
you woke up ready
to make things right, right?
I nodded.
And the reason why
is because for the
first time in your life,
you realize, or at least
you think you could
kill someone, right?
I nodded.
RIGHT?
he said, louder.
Right.