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Sometimes Looney doesn't
understand what's going on.

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He hears rumors and doesn't
understand what's going on.

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This occurs to him in
matters of sex for example.

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Once in a while, he overstays,
for whatever reason,

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he stays too long in town.

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And he doesn't get
home until after dark.

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And there's a woman
in town who likes

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to undress in front of
an uncurtained window.

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And Looney is caught there
between the old proverbial rock

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and a hard place.

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He's afraid of the dark.

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But he's also
drawn to the woman.

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And he stands there, not knowing
whether to fish or cut bait.

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And he doesn't understand
what the real crux of it is.

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At other times, he hears
rumors about things

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that are happening in town
that he can't quite understand.

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So he's able to pass along only
those little bits and pieces

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that he does know.

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One of his best friends is
the lumber man, RP Dickman.

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Because RP gives him
scraps of lumber,

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and Looney is a
very good whittler.

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But RP and his wife,
his Pentecostal wife,

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don't get along.

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And Looney doesn't understand
all the involvements there,

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but he hears whisperings.

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And this is a whispering poem.

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What the whispering
says is that RP Dickman

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drinks the same tonic
that Yuri the barber

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rubs into other people's heads.

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That he sleeps with
a redwood 4 by 4,

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taken from his own
lumberyard and always has.

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And that his daughters are
nothing more than slivers,

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having been born from
Dreams, the board head.

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What the whispering says,
is that one of these days,

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RP Dickman is going to take
a rip saw home and divide

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his wife's small
Pentecostal throat.

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That has "gone
fishing" sign will

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be dangling from a doorknob
when Clifton Bury's flashlight

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wanders over to ask questions.

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What the whispering says, is
that more and more all the wood

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that RP Dickman owns smells
like Lucky Tiger or Bay Rum.

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And listen, what
the whispering says,

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is that before
something happens,

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something should be done.

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