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Waiting for Lefty
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Joe: I'd get another job if I could. There's no work -- you know it.
Edna : I only know we're at the bottom of the ocean.
Joe: What can I do?
Edna: Who's the man in the family, you or me?
Joe: That's no answer. Get down to brass tacks. Christ, gimme a break, too! : A coffee and Java all day. I'm hungry, too, Babe. I'd work my fingers to the bone if --
Edna: I'll open a can of salmon.
Joe: Not now. Tell me what to do!
Edna: I'm not God!
Joe: Jeez, I wish I was a kid again and didn't have to think about the next minute.
Edna: But you're not a kid and you do have to think about the next minute. You got two blondie kids sleeping in the next room. They need food and clothes. I'm not mentioning anything else — But we're stalled like a flivver in the snow. For five years I laid awake at night listening to my heart pound. For God's sake, do something, Joe, get wise. Maybe get your buddies together, maybe go on strike for better money. Poppa did it during the war and they won out. I'm turning into a sour old nag.
Joe: I'd get another job if I could. There's no work -- you know it.
Edna : I only know we're at the bottom of the ocean.
Joe: What can I do?
Edna: Who's the man in the family, you or me?
Joe: That's no answer. Get down to brass tacks. Christ, gimme a break, too! : A coffee and Java all day. I'm hungry, too, Babe. I'd work my fingers to the bone if --
Edna: I'll open a can of salmon.
Joe: Not now. Tell me what to do!
Edna: I'm not God!
Joe: Jeez, I wish I was a kid again and didn't have to think about the next minute.
Edna: But you're not a kid and you do have to think about the next minute. You got two blondie kids sleeping in the next room. They need food and clothes. I'm not mentioning anything else — But we're stalled like a flivver in the snow. For five years I laid awake at night listening to my heart pound. For God's sake, do something, Joe, get wise. Maybe get your buddies together, maybe go on strike for better money. Poppa did it during the war and they won out. I'm turning into a sour old nag.
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Edna: I know this—your boss is making suckers outa you boys every minute. Yes, and suckers out of all the wives and the poor innocent kids who'll grow up with crooked spines and sick bones. Sure, I see it in the papers, how good orange juice is for kids. But damnit our kids get colds one on top of the They look like little ghosts. Betty never saw a grapefruit. I took her to the store last week and she pointed to a stack of grapefruits. "What's that!" she said. My God, Joe— the world is supposed to be for all of us.
Edna: I know this—your boss is making suckers outa you boys every minute. Yes, and suckers out of all the wives and the poor innocent kids who'll grow up with crooked spines and sick bones. Sure, I see it in the papers, how good orange juice is for kids. But damnit our kids get colds one on top of the They look like little ghosts. Betty never saw a grapefruit. I took her to the store last week and she pointed to a stack of grapefruits. "What's that!" she said. My God, Joe— the world is supposed to be for all of us.
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Flor: We wanted to have kids.
Sid: But that sort of life ain't for the dogs which is us. Christ, Baby! I get like thunder in my chest when we're together. If we went off together I could maybe look the world straight in the face, spit in its eye like a man should do. Goddamnit, it's trying to be a man on the earth. Two in life together.
Flor: We wanted to have kids.
Sid: But that sort of life ain't for the dogs which is us. Christ, Baby! I get like thunder in my chest when we're together. If we went off together I could maybe look the world straight in the face, spit in its eye like a man should do. Goddamnit, it's trying to be a man on the earth. Two in life together.