Crystalline Cool (9)

   
   "Crystalline Cool (9)"
   
   Duncan couldn't handle the stresses of Aimee anymore; indeed, she was a pleasant girl, with a heavenly face forged by God, yet he felt an awesome inclination to only dig deep into the Earth, visit the souls in Purgatory through prayer, and watch Westerns with his crazy horse Dad.
   His Dad mentioning to him:  "Still reading the King James Version, huh?  You're so much like your mother, but I tell you--others might possibly transcend such poetry in verse."
   And this intrinsic command Duncan felt, to visit the lost souls, knowing the physician Luke's Good News, offering:  "Strive to enter in at the strait gait gate:  for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able--I know you not whence ye are; depart from me . . ."
    Duncan prayed for those souls; next, into the small living room, Roadkill atop the sofa with Dad puffing away his prayers, and the Duke, shot again, and yes, in the leg, on the tube, the black and white with rabbit ears still functioning.
   And as Duncan took a seat, his Dad, having that stoic look about himself, calmly probed:  "What's the difference between a cactus and a rich man's car?"  
   Duncan rolled his eyes, not eager to be tempted to laugh at the old man's bizarre humor, yet the son took the bait, asking for the answer.
   Dad said:  "With a rich man's car--the prick is on the inside."  
   Duncan looked to the stars through the ceiling, and Roadkill grinned while his Dad laughed; next, John Wayne got shot in the leg again, though it was unlike King Arthur's wound in the high thigh.