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yeah the land of fevers yeah
the land of drenched
a wet car in
a pharmacy drive-thru you
gotta go
to the other pharmacy the pharmacist says via the micro
phone
ok you reply you drive to the
other pharmacy
rain
neon
wipers swish swish class
ical npr on the radio less than a qtr tank of gas you
arrive in the hood the police
have someone pulled over in a grocery store parking lot lights flashing
the
second pharmacy is closed ok
so it's
back to the first pharmacy the sick girl
is like dude my eye is crusting over i
can hardly see and
the baby is crying H1N1 codes in his carrier and then it's
the pretty pharmacist at the window again yeah i can fill it she says but
you might have to pay for this yourself tho becuz your in
surance company already covered the prescription at the other pharmacy
the sick girl no lie
has tears in her eyes oh
i'm not paying she whispers i have better things to do with a hundred bucks
just re
lax man you say
but the pharmacist is a sweet lady and she sets everything right and
the medicine turns out to be ten bucks and as they drive away the hero says you
know what you need?

she is ravaged by fever she does not answer
he says
candy and he
crosses the street to a gas station
inside 2
little girls have 2 for 2 dollars bags of candy [GUMMI BEARS]
but not enough jing for the tax the clerk is all you
don't have 78 cent and the girls slowly shake their heads and look like they are
gonna cry man and the clerk keeps glancing out the windows to where his manager is smoking in the parking lot and it feels like forever passes and finally our dude says here man i have a dollar idk why this is breaking my heart but it is the
one girl says to her sister that white man is giving him a dollar neither girl says thanks
but the clerk does he says thanks man the dollar-giver says
yeah. i have four kids. and for some reason saying this makes him feel shy and he looks down at the counter and the clerk says $1.49 and while the fella swipes his card he sees the clerk place his bag of mini-chick o sticks [VEGAN] directly on top of his chewy sweet tarts [CAMERA BLOCKING MANEUVER] that the clerk did not ring up and
the man says thank-you sir and the clerk says yup and
as he walks out to his car he realizes that the total ebony and ivory moments he shared with the pretty phar
macist and the clerk in the store have warmed his wet rainy soul and forced the thought into
his jaded suspicious mind that there just may be
hope
after all
for the diseased writhing mass known as mankind and
that feeling man. it cannot be described. i mean. it's something special. like. it makes his heart sing in his lonesome, scarred chest
and
believe me. he is so fuckin grateful to hear that song.

bless.