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                   "You think too much, you
                   can't force these things, you
                   just have to be open to new
                   posibilities, play your
                   opportunities as they arise
                   see where they go, and not               ELVIRA
                   worry about it too much."

           Of course not.               Of course.

     Providence favors                      I need to just do it, and
     a prepared mind.                       quit trying to control
                                            everything in my life.

Some women believe this "go with               I think                 CAGEY
the flow" philosphy, probably                  therefore
because they're under the                      I am not.
impression that relationships                                GHOST   
"just happen", because they've
never had to put much effort
into making them happen.                         Pretend I'm someone else,
                                                 and give that boy some
Women can always evade                           advice, cause the schemes
responsibility through the                       I cook up for me are
traditional route of                             goddamn stupid, like
passivity.                                       pretending all the
                                                 parameters of my
While playing a game of "Scruples"               personality are variables,
once, I insulted a woman by                      shall I learn to be
suggesting that she just might                   homosexual, I ask, but
want to get to get to know someone               this is *ridiculous*.
she met in a laundroment:                        Shall I learn to lie?
"I don't need to pick-up men!"                   Shall I learn to be more
                                                 "flexible" and chase after
           (no devils around just                women I don't want for the
           then, strangely enough)               sake of fufilling a goal
                                                 I'm uninterested in?
                                                 Tomorrow may I wake up and
                                                 choose to be a bitter
                                                 Richard Blaine hard-case
                                                 rather than the more
                                                 complicated mixture I
                                                 really am?


                                                 Sometimes I play a game of
                                                 looking at couples on the
                                                 street.  If the woman
                                                 looks cool, I check out what
                                                 kind of guy she's with,
                                                 because that's the kind of guy
                                                 I'd probably have to be if I
                                                 wanted to go out with her.
                                                 Usually I decide it's not
                                                 worth it.



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