3: MARCH

Bould and his "canine" housing block co-inhabitant, Droopy, keep bumping into each other, somehow set to the same clock. On this backyard morning, Droopy corners Bould for a game of marbles.

Characters, in order of appearance:
BLOCKWART, house caretaker
DROOPY, apartment block tenant
BOULD, acting student, apartment block tenant 

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March Lone Number Two I named him Droopy after Tex Avery's lethargic Basset Detective Dog The one who's always there when the villain wolf opens the door Marbot Marbles Marble I was helping Rutby down the stairs propping him up Yes yes take my hand one step at a time careful marble marbles as many as you like New the iron clothes hanging loosely on a thin plank like frame the glue isn't brittle droopy you might pop apart marble you wouldn't want me to let you go now would you fine moccasins careful a sports cap drawn down over watery ice like drops in a well friend careful hold on take my hand friend there are no friends down the stairs past the old toilets with its library of pawn mags Scandinavian private eye Droopy it smile as he emerged between the backyard bikes in the morning place of marbles with me in the neighborhood Droopy and Bald kept encountering each other somehow set to the same clock in the park place of marbles with me what in a place of marbles at the laundrette place of marbles what marbles on the bus in a place of marbles with me what a place of marbles and in the backyard bumping into each other I'd almost say they'd started seeing each other in the backyard on his way to class at the young pheasant student playhouse Bold was absorbed memorizing lines am I pretending with this whoever did this must be some kind of King Kong King Kong he was mid sentence unlocking his bicycle when out of the blue Droopy stood right next to him hello oh hi hello yes I said hello you said hi no yes I mean I meant hello yes yeah I said hello gonna play marbles play marbles great no I meant no you said play marbles play marbles with me no yes uh pooch have you kissed a pooch before never have you kissed the pooch before it's kind of it's kind of kind of dog biscuity please stay away dog biscuit please stay dog biscuit away please stay biscuit away no please you and me are one okay okay keep away please stay what they all say Droopy and Bald could they move in together Droopy when he first appeared in the nineties I thought he was a Russian agent a spy not like one of those old ladies asking for directions then I'd always turn on my best hat in the hand manners but with this guy oh no but then it turned out Droopy was a seeker a sensitive type in exile on the run and this scared me worse because a man cannot escape what he desires luckily the bottle got to him girls got afraid of him he developed some bad ticks both facial and vocal and a great knack for the marbles he would see them in the swirls of the moon or in the black burnt milk on a hot plate