GRACE
Honey,
you have to stop acting so depressed.
POE
I’m not
acting.
GRACE
That’s
just not the way to make friends.
POE
It made
me plenty of friends in San Francisco. They admire depression there. It’s
something to be achieved through hard work.
GRACE
Oh,
Poem.
POE
Poe.
Call me Poe, Mom. Not Poem. They’ll hang me from a tree if they find out my
name is Poem. Scary things happen in small quaint places like this. Stephen
King isn’t a fiction writer, he’s a historian.
GRACE
Oh
sweetie, that’s ridiculous. Poem is a beautiful name. It means something -- not
like Jennifer or Margie. Everyone know what a poem is.
POE
Everyone
knows what shit is too, but no one gets named Shit.
