Michael Malone - Weebly

Nonononono. The secret's in the Promised Land.
He promised me, but then he took my womb
instead. I told her to let me go there. She stole my
pictures away from me and put them in her pills. Lock
her in the safe. I'll paint the rowing lady, I'll paint her
right into Paradise. Yes. Naked and a banana in her
mouth. There's a picnic on the sky. Put down the
blanket. Yes. The light's so bright.
We'll eat up the stars. Yes. We'll eat up the sun.
Yes. We'll all eat the secret. Nobody will rain. No.
Nobody will rain anymore."
Father Highwick gave his mother's cheerful cheek a
kiss.
"Exactly so." He beamed. "The Promised Land, the
secret, yes. But I never would have thought to put it that
way. Ah, Ma, dear, what an imagination you have!"
Down the path they went.
Having rowed as fast as she could out of sight of
Father Highwick exuberantly waving at her from the
lake bank, Beanie had hurried Richard back to the
apartment that a friend of Charlie Rolfe's had offered
them in place of the $200 Charlie owed Rage. The