Bela's House

[shauna mcclure]

I drove up to Runyon today, taking the dog with me as a beard because I knew I would walk by your house and although I would lamely try to avert my gaze, willing myself not to look, it was impossible not to hear the music floating through the open dining room windows.

Of course it's all different now because they've remodeled everything and the panthers are gone.

I have been living the example you set before me, trying to set my soul free - residing in perfect poverty - walking a rocky path of enlightenment while I eat the Bugles I have attached to my fingertips.

I spoke with a Hungarian accent for the first seven years of my life. The first words I spoke to my kindergarten teacher were 'I vant to suck your blood', needless to say, coupled with the ankle biting, it did not go over well. Today I find it is better to remain silent and avoid biting strangers.

 

 

[Jamie Hogan]

There is this intoxicating rhthym to sentence three, caused by "me" and then "free" and then "poverty." All those ee sounds at the ends of phrases just rocking me to sleep. Brilliant. As is the concept of this in general, and it's execution. *Standing O*

[Jeanette Cheezum]

I loved that last sentence. What a visual.

[Teresa]

You never disappoint.  And you can bite my ankles anytime...;-)

[Angela]

Mr. Lugosi would be proud of his influence on you.  This is highly imaginative, and I wish so strongly I had thought of bugles that way myself.  Such a wicked use of snack food.

[Bill Floyd]

You should definitely only bite people you know.

[Toby Tucker Hecht]

I loved the Bugles attached to fingertips.  That is a great way to set yourself free.  Keep it up.

[Robert Crisman]

Poor Bela. The morphine got him. And then came Ed Wood...

[bolton carley]

quite a take on a character.  the bugles and perfect poverty left a definite image.

[shauna mcclure]

Bela Lugosi. I was up late watching silent movies...Christ, I need a hobby.

[Gita]

I was reading along fine till I reached the panthers. That made my choo-choo jump the track and I got to thinking, what Hollywood star kept panthers?

As for keeping silent, well, yes. But only in moderation.

Terrific Six.