"Don Webb - The Shiny Surface" - читать интересную книгу автора (Webb Don)

WalrusтАЩ, тАШBang a GongтАЩ, тАШI Only Have Eyes for YouтАЩ, тАШJohnny AngelтАЩ, тАШI Had
Too Much to Dream (Last Night)тАЩ.

As the chords of the Electric Prunes classic died the readingsтАЩ began
again. Jerry loved Sue and JerryтАЩs wife Trish loved Gene. Gene loved
Maud and Maud loved Robert. Willie loved Etta and Etta loved a man IтАЩd
never seen. Butch loved Alice and ButchтАЩs wife Marie loved Alice.

Finally Monica came to my table. She knew the cards were a scam,
but she was too stoned to care - or maybe someone put her up to it. Jerry
ButlerтАЩs тАШWhatтАЩs the Use of Breaking UpтАЩ was playing. Well, this was what I
waited for and what I feared. I polished the mirror. I saw myself. She loved
me and I began to cry. But the music ended and somebody put Johnny
AceтАЩs тАШPledging My LoveтАЩ on the machine.

My reflection wavered. At first I thought it was the tears and the hash.
But I dissolved and a teenaged guy with brown hair and sunglasses and a
leather jacket appeared. He held a rose, a small red rose; and he stood in
the dark. I knew he would always be alone. I looked up at Monica and she
was crying - quietly but strongly enough that tears splashed on the cards. I
finished the reading. I felt like going home. I wrapped my mirror in velvet
and made my good-byes. I gathered up our records and steered Monica
out of the door. She moved slowly, as if underwater - or leaving a funeral. In
the cannabis haze no one noticed.

We walked home - I only live three blocks from HalтАЩs. The pollution
hid the stars and I could smell smog as well as roses - we have these huge
bushes - as we walked up to the house. We were tired. So we didnтАЩt put
anything up.

Around three in the morning I woke up. Monica stood in front of the
window watching the ugly night sky.

тАШMonica?тАЩ

тАШYeah?тАЩ

тАШThat record tonight was pretty special, wasnтАЩt it?тАЩ

тАШYeah.тАЩ

тАШWant to say any more?тАЩ

тАШYou know, I didnтАЩt realise you could forget great hurts, but I hadnтАЩt
thought of Johnny in years. He gave me a copy of that single on our second
date. He even got me the whole album later on, the Johnny Ace Memorial
Album. This was in тАШ66, which he said should be called Year One - because
it was the beginning of our love. He had this thing for Johnny Ace since they
were both named Johnny. Johnny Ace was rockтАЩnтАЩrollтАЩs first suicide. He
killed himself in Houston on Christmas Eve 1954. Well, I shouldтАЩve known