@@@@@"Just relax, boy, we're gonna take care of
@@@@@"Just relax, boy, we're gonna take care of ya Wilson dribbled a little blood out of his mouth and lay motionless, feeling it dry on his chinListen, boy, you got to keep quiet on account of the Japs But the words corroded his stupor, and left him afraidHe was sinking again in the tall grass of the field, waiting for the Japanese to find him, and he began to blubber softly without realizing it, as if his weeping came from an excreta of his nervesOnly he could feel the blood pulsing out of his belly, trickling, searching for new stream beds along the muscular ravines of his groin to end at last in a pool between his thighsHe knew it; as if he had sight in his belly he formed an image of roiled and twisted flesh, curling about itself, writhingIt kept squeezing the blood out
"Looks like a pussy," he heard himself murmuring, only the words sounded with a roar
"Wilson, you got to shut up
The fear lapsed, became a vague disquiet, lulled by Brown's handThis time, Wilson really whispered"One damn thing Ah cain't figger outTwo in bed and wake up three, two in bed an' wake up three He repeated it like a jingle"What t'hell's one got to do with t'other; you jus' do your screwin' an' it comes out a kid He wrinkled his face, partially from pain, and then relaxed again, sinking into the sensual fetid memories of a woman over himThen the image blurred, and his vision faded into a series of concentric circles boring into his head with the delirium of etherWhen they done op-per-rated on ya, an' ya got a hole in ya, y' cain't go to sleepPappy went to sleep an' he woke up deadHis mind swirled, plumbing back into his core, considering himself objectively as a man who was going to dieHe fought against it, terrified, not really believing it, like a man who looks in a mirror and speaks, and cannot believe that the face he has seen really belongs to himselfHe careened from one unexplored cavern into another, believing at last that he had heard his daughter saying, "Pappy went to sleep an' he woke up dead
"No!" Wilson shouted"Where'd you git that idea, May?"
"That's a cute girl you got," Brown said