…cats is strange creatures…they is real quiet all day…then they make love at three in the morning and wake up half the county…
Monroe D. Underwood
Wallace peered at me with sleepy eyes.
He said don’t you think it’s too early?
I shrugged.
I said hell if it’s that early why are you open?
Wallace said you know I been wondering about that myself.
I sat at the bar.
I shook my head.
Wallace said what’s the matter?
I said nothing important.
I said I just got the feeling that I’ve lived this moment before.
Wallace said yeah that happens to me every so often.
He said last time was when Old Dad Underwood and Shorty Connors come in here and got to talking about guitars.
The door opened.
Old Dad Underwood and Shorty Connors came in.
They sat at the bar.
They got to talking about guitars.
Shorty Connors said I got a big problem making a F chord.
Old Dad Underwood said me too.
He said oncet I asked a guy how to make a good F chord.
He said this guy tole me I should just mash a handful of strings and hit ’er a lick.
Shorty Connors said how did it work out?
Old Dad Underwood said not too good.
He said we still can’t get the cat from under the couch.
Shorty Connors said last year I wrote to Segovia and asked him how to make a good F chord.
He said Segovia never answered.
He said neither did Chet Atkins.
He said now I don’t feel so bad.
Old Dad Underwood said a guitar is just like a woman’s body.
Shorty Connors said yeah I see lots like that at the shopping center.
Old Dad Underwood said I don’t mean the shape.
Shorty Connors said well I got a sister-in-law what is completely unstrung.
Old Dad Underwood said I am talking about the way a woman’s body responds to your caresses.
Shorty Connors said well here we are back on F chords.
Wallace said I just got the feeling that I have lived this moment before I lived this moment before.
He stared at me.
He said Chance you look pale.
He said what kind of feeling did you just get?
I said I just got the feeling that I left my suitcase in Brandy Alexander’s automobile.