The Thin Leaf - Red Bus

A:
How are you doing, Thin Leaf?

B:
Well, I must admint I`m doing pretty good. I have been down south on a strange, but comfortable bustrip. I even painted a wall.

A:
Strange, Leaf, strange.

B:
Yeah. Strange days. It was a red bus. Ten people inside. Five women. Five men. The driver was a tall man from Canada. Halfway trough the trip he went out to buy some beans, and he never came back.

A:
Never came back, you say?

B:
Yeah, never came back.

A:
Strange.

B:
Strange indeed. But, we got lucky.

A:
You did?

B:
Yeah. One of the passengers happen to be a retired busdriver from somewhere in Egypt, and he got behind the wheel. Drove slowly throught the night. I think his father were an englishman.

A:
Did he have a name?

B:
Yeah, I suppose.

A:
What was his name?

B:
I don´t remember.

A:
Could it have been Richard Henry Greenslide?

B:
As a matter of fact; it could. Yeah, I remember. His name was Richard Henry Greenslide. How did you know?

A:
I don´t know, Leaf, it just kind of got into my brains.

B:
Well, strange I must say.

A:
Yeah, pretty strange indeed.
Thin Leaf?

B:
Yeah?

A:
Are you hungry?

B:
No. I just ate a solid breakfast. Bread, milk, coffee, some beans, an apple, and a cigarette.

A:
Are you thirsty then, Thin Leaf?

B:
Yes, as a matter of fact, I am. Water is good. Water is fine. I really would like a glass of water.

A:
You don´t say, Leaf?

B:
I sure do.

Green Radioknobs.

A:
Do you like sugar, Thin Leaf?

B:
Well, sometimes I do like sugar. I`m no stranger too sugar.

A:
What do you mean? Sometimes, huh?

B:
Yeah, you know. I don`t eat sugar everyday, you know. I don´t think about sugar all the time, you know. I don´t run to the store if I ran out of sugar, you know. But, in general, I do like sugar.

A:
How about green radioknobs?

B:
Green radioknobs, you say? That´s a pretty weird question.

A:
Yeah. Green radioknobs. Do you like the colour?

B:
What do you mean? Do you want to know wether I like the colour green or not?

A:
Well, not exactly. I want to know if you like green radioknobs, Thin Leaf?

B:
Yeah. I like them. They look good, I suppose.

A:
They do look good, Leaf. They sure do.

B:
The colour green is a good colour. I don´t tell you it is my favourite colour, but it´s pretty close.

A:
Pretty close to what, Leaf?

B:
Pretty close to being my favourite colour. The colour green reminds me of a strange, but powerful car.

A:
A car, Thin Leaf?

B:
A car. An old car. Green car, with a solid roof.

A:
Did you dance on that solid roof?

B:
Sure I did. One time, sometime in spring, I went to the shoeshop and bought myself  a nice pair of some black boots. I tried to dance with them boots on the roof of that car, but I fell down.

A:
Well, Leaf, did you land on your feet?

B:
I did, I did. I remember I went to the coffeeshop right after the accident.

A:
Black coffee?

B:
Sure.

The Thin Leaf and Crazy Coffin.

Thin Leaf and Crazy Coffin

TL: Crazy Coffin! Is that you, watching total strangers passing by on this cool day of autumn?

CC: Thin Leaf! Have a seat! Sit down on this laidback parkbench, put together by The Carpenter.

TL: You mean The Carpenter?

CC: I sure do, Leaf.

TL: Long time, no see....that Carpenter. How is he doing these days?

CC: He actually telephoned me last week. He´s in Spokane. He met a woman at some railwaystation. They are going to Porterville, by train.

TL: This is a good bench. I really like this bench, Coffin. I feel very relaxed just sitting down. Talking to you.

CC: Seen any good motion pictures lately, Leaf?

TL: I have. Last night I watched four movies on my television. First one; "This Strange Book Came in My Mail Today" starring Leonard Cooper. Then I leaped to "Seen my Key, Mr. Weatherbee"....a comedy from the late twenties, silent movie. And then, after a decent meal...

CC: Decent meal, huh?

TL: That´s right. Some boiled eggs, an omelettte and a glass of tomato juice.

CC: You like eggs, huh?

TL: I do. I really do. Nice, round eggs with a crazy taste of them open fields.

CC: I like eggs too.

TL: I want mustard on my boiled eggs. Then, after the coffeebreak I went back to my wooden shelf, and picked out the third one.

CC: As I sit here with you, on this lazy bench, I can´t wait hearing about your next choice.

TL: It was that Joseph Mexico movie from 1949; "Is there something wrong with my Stamp, Dear Mailman". Such a great ending.

CC: Crazy ending, Leaf. Crazy ending.

TL: Two airplanes falling madly in love.

CC: I did not know machinery had feelings, but Mister Mexico told us all about it, in that movie.

TL: Well, Mister Mexico I would say, was an genius. The last one from yesterday; "Drive me to Lexington".

CC: Starring Bud Bucky Starwater?

TL: No. Clement Harris!

CC: You don´t say, Thin Leaf?

TL: I sure do. I sure do, Crazy Coffin.