"HOW MANY DEAD PEOPLE DO YOU KNOW?" - MARY LAVIN

He counted on his fingers, /Jimmy, Vinny, Bob the Frog, Drew, Alice, and Farley. Six. You?”
/Does it have to be just people?” I asked.
/I don’t know, you asked the question. You tell me.”
/I know one person and one dog.”
/I know about five rodents by name,” he said.
/Is the ebola virus contagious?” I asked.
/The what?”
/The ebola virus, the one where you bleed out of every orafice you could think of.”
/Oh, I guess so.”
/How do you get it? I think I might have it.”
/Why would you have the virus-thingy?”
/I bled yesterday. How do you get it?”
/You bled? Out of where?”
/How do you get it?”
/Monkeys I think. Where’d you bleed?”
/Look if you don’t know just say so.”
/I said monkeys.”
/Monkeys? That’s nuts. You’re an idiot, what are you talking about monkeys?”
/That’s where the virus comes from, like in the movie.”
/What movie?”
/I don’t know. Where’d you bleed from?”

- Evan Donnelly