The ongoing Ellix Powers saga part 19

Ellix spent another day in heaven as he called it. I don’t know if he was trying to quote Field of Dreams, or if it just came out that way, but he said “I know this isn’t heaven, but it sure feels like it.” He laid around on the couch and watched movies for another 16 hours, before getting on the last possible bus at midnight. I wrote down what I could of the day, but there were times I couldn’t possibly keep up with him without upgrading my somewhat competent typing skills.

My buddy mikey told Ellix it might be better for him if I didn’t run out to get him cigarettes. “I done thought about all the answers. If he kills me, I don’t have to buy any more cigarettes. If I go tomorrow, I don’t have to worry about no cigarettes, I don’t have to worry about rent, getting sick paying doctors, I don’t have to worry about shit. Gods gonna take care of me.”

“You get old, shit don’t stay the same. That’s why I got a coat on in las Vegas, and my arms hurt so damn bad.”

He was talking about pawning a piece of jewelry someone had lent him. “If I don’t have to tell him I pawned it, we will be alright. If I have to tell him, he’s gonna flip. I aint gonna lie to him too hard. There’s a difference between lying and stretching the truth. I aint gonna cheat this guy.”

“You couldn’t pay me a thousand dollars to move these fucking couches. Maybe two thousand, and Id do it.”

We were watching Kelly’s heroes about World War two soldiers robbing a bank, “Whole lot of that shit going on in any war, believe it. Some people are in there fucking dying, other people trying to make money. Any type of war is the same. What do you think a poker war is? Some people playin partners, some people trying to win money, some people trying to make deals. Its all poker.”

“I hate Vegas. I always hated Vegas. I take that back, I used to like it here. I brought a ho out here with me. There were only ten casinos on the whole strip, I could probably name them.”

“I hate to tell you but it’s that time again, sleep time. But I can feel the difference in my body though, oh man I can feel the difference big time.”

“Maybe I got hay fever or something.”

“Get out of this crazy ass town of yours. The worst part of it is it’s the smallest one, it’s the smallest motherfucking one of them and it’s a toxic town.”

While we were watching the under-rated Crocodile Dundee two, “To catch Mick Dundee up in the jungle, y’all better bring kryptonite. That man is a bad motherfucker in the jungle man. He’s better than Tarzan.” He kept saying “Mick Dundee” with a weird accent and great emphasis at random times throughout the movie.

“John Wayne was shit. He didn’t do shit. Till the very end, then he made a couple good movies. He made a couple funny movies, about a cowboy or something. People liked him though. I liked him in about 5 movies. Gene Autry though man, lot of motherfuckers better than him. Shit, Roy Rogers better than him. Some of the best western actors didn’t even do westerns. Henry Ford was better than him.”

“I got my foot in the door to stardom last year. But the bodyguards are comin. I gotta force that motherfucker open before they come round and close it on me.”

While we were watching man on fire, “The shits about to go down, man on fire. He about to get some pussy. He’s gonna kill them all so he can get some pussy. I understand the little girl if it was his. But lets say he knew this bitch a year, she gone. He did his job very well, he took twenty bullets for her. He did all he could, your best is good enough when you take all them bullets. Only a nut would go after anything but pussy. If he loves the little girl and he wants to go after her when she’s older, then alright, but otherwise, it’s about the pussy with all them bullets involved.”

“Yeah its gonna go down, I don’t smoke that much. I’m gonna hit it right quick. Lets go man, lets get this broke dick motherfucker out of your house.”

He gave me a bag with a sweatshirt, a pair of shoes with no laces, and a pair of socks. He said he didn’t need them anymore, and thought I could use them. The shoes were pretty sweet, and once I get them laced up, I’m hittin the town.

We made the long drive to the bus station and Ellix started wondering aloud, “I hope they let me take three bags on, you’re only supposed to take two.” I asked him why he didn’t just carry on the small adias bag instead of stowing it. “Hell no, I don’t want to carry that shit on. Besides if I carry it on, I cant put it in their storage.” I had never heard of a bus station having storage, so I questioned whether it existed. “Yeah man, I always let them take care of storing my shit, that way I can get where I’m going to and make some calls without having to pay 2 dollars for some fucking locker.” I realized he was just using the lost and found system as storage and so I asked if he ever lost his bag. “They never lost it yet. They’d be cryin’ if they did, cause of all the shit I would claim was in there. Id claim it was full of leather jackets. Oh shit, you guys lost my leather bag. I had leather coats in there, leather pants, leather shoes, leather socks, whatever the fuck. Probably had some gold rolled up in there too. Shit, they better hope they don’t lose my bag.”

I asked him if he ever had a straight job, and he said never in his life. After pressing more about when he was younger, he admitted “I didn’t have no paper route, but I had a TV Guide route. Shit didn’t last long. Walking all over the motherfucking place, then you had to collect. 6 months, definitely less than six months. I hated that shit, I was only eight years old, but I knew I hated that shit.”

When we got neat the bus station, he started screaming at me to make a u turn in the middle of the two lane street and pulling up in the no parking zone to drop his shit off right in front of the bus station. I paused because I knew that the move was both illegal and blatant, but eventually I gave into Ellix’s yelling and I flipped the bitch. I helped him unload his stuff, and he apologized for screaming at me as we said our goodbyes. He said he would give me a call in a couple weeks after he won an event at the Legends of Poker tournament in LA.

The ongoing Ellix Powers saga part 19

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