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THE RED FOR RENT sign stops him dead in his tracks. Roy sizes up the building. The windows are filthy. Some of the panes have popped out and been replaced with chunks of thick brown cardboard, cupped and spotted with dried raindrops. The sidewalk is littered with various bits and pieces of the productive world. Large trucks thunder past, shifting gears under their heavy loads of merchandise, for this is Seattle’s warehouse district, and their thunderous passage vacuums along vortices of grit and dirt, further serving to darken the already filthy windows. He considers the tumbledown building with weed-filled gutters, and smiles. To Roy, it looks like home. ROY ROGERS IN THE 21ST CENTURY 1
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Roy only has two keys. He inserts o
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And, as the gods would have it, of
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Ask the guy inside what the hell it
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Roy has a plan. His hand tightens o
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He counts them—there are four in
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Although, looking back at it—whic
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Spanning Jordan’s swelling tide;
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And this is how much his mind is ma
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Metasations; Chinese, Thai, Salvado
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course, by the time he thinks of so
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He springs open the doors. If Roy
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Roy hates broccoli. Not hate like a
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Pots and pots of the stuff. Apparen
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iefly present him with her Automati
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She forgot to ask him for his Safew
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The big, bracketing houses on eithe
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He threads his way to the door and
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Mel chews on his olive. “’eef S
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Roy winces. “Why don’t you tell
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He set about gathering firewood and
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ordered. On Roy’s first day worki
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met his comeuppance, and they would
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attle cups and spoons, jazzed to ha
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Roy wonders what they were laughing
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As stated earlier, Roy possesses bu
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he should do. But now he’s gone t
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evaporated during the night, embrac
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Sometimes it is referred to as bash
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There’s only one way to find out.
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ended him up in Wyoming and Montana
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Shades of night are falling As the
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plan? Had he not followed it throug
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counter and smiles at the waitress
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knows the entire inventory? That ha
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is simple: he is excited that he is
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The quiet in the Wailing Wall is de
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He clicks around a few knobs on a b
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Smoke starts to pour out from under
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But I ask you please Don’t fence
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Another vulture vultches. He takes
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hard to keep this sort of thing—
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On the sidewalk, the long shadows a
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Pecos started shootin’ up their l
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His tongue, squiggling inside his m
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Roy’s face muscles try hard to sm
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His eyes slide briefly, anxiously,
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What Old Guy does instead is he pat
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Roy smiles and nods back. “Roy wh
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The door slams shut. bang Roy’s s
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particularly unpleasant period when
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parking meters to thwart beefy, thi
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Just a little bit higher Little bit
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Over and over again it goes—yippe
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“Whiskey.” Unsurprised, the bar
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“When was last you seen him?” D
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Someone is banging away with his fi
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Old Guy’s room is illuminated by
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The gun seems to be getting heavy.
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“Harry Carey?” No. “Hoot Gibs
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Roy has a problem with this. “I,
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“For more’n thirty years he was
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manages to sit in the chair previou
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Young Guy looks to Old Guy and real
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It suits him. Pistol Pete. Isn’t
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Long Fellow. All but the Navajo fea
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The old, skinny bus driver sags int
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Mel sashays to where Rick is crumpl
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He opened to the first page and pee
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westward to the land of Texas. With
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he has been eighty-sixed from two i
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Smiling Guy deals with them every d
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Roy clutches his stack of CDs. Ther
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upon Roy’s gleaming baldness befo
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R as well as CD-RW? If you plan on
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Their voices are deep and rich and
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Does Debi ever shut up? Roy uncover
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The ones Rick is going through. “
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“I’m tapped. I need some green.
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Thus their caravan, comprised of a
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off Sol’s ears, and singed those
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Newmany vanilla ice cream into two
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put much stock in reading, that is
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“So, howz ’bout it? You game?
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Pete stands and the floor creaks as
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Pete rolls the baggie tight, slips
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A man in cowboy clothes and black h
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“He’s not ’spozed to.” Sinc
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Loving Trail—as it later became k
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Walsh saw ’im an’ tapped ’im
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In Pete’s head, he can clearly se
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“They were released th’ same ye
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Draw, Rick. Rick snaps his cigarett
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holes peppered the clapboard shingl
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When this failed to elicit a respon
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And the popcorn. Best popcorn in th
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and who knows what else to track yo
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“Don’t know anything about you.
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He does seem to like horses, though
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politician in need of the young con
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His eyes land on the mattress. Roy
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dope and restive sleeplessness. His
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“O” His grip on the knife tight
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“Shit.” Roy trots down the hall
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“Yes, ma’am, reckon so.” She
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“That’s what we call a coozie,
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He wishes it was a double-tall Amer
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chance to shut up. Don’t squat wi
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“Stuffin’ his horse.” “Oh.
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’60s an’ ’70s. Guy wrote th
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Thanksgiving, and he wants me to in
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The men dined on hearty fare, and t
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“You hold down his legs,” he in
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ching ching He chings his way to th
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from the bat-wing piping that cross
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Mel is preoccupied with where to pu
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Pete: “Buchanan Rides Alone.” M
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In the foreground, a cowboy gallops
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the fallin’ dusk when I get th’
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“I have to keep everything of val
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Mel, unopposed, pours. clink “So
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If one can be said to frown with co
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A car squeals to a stop. The three
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Rick takes another step. “Or anot
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There is motion; he is ushered alon
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