Button Guy

 

"Hey, remember that guy..."

"What guy?"

"That guy. The button guy."

"What button guy?"

"The guy. The guy with the shirts."

"The shirts?"

"Yeah."

"What shirts?"

"The shirts. The guy from Boston."

"Who, you mean...?"

"Yeah."

"You mean...who, you mean what's-his-name's cousin?"

"Yeah, that guy."

"You mean him?"

"Yeah. What was his name?"

"The guy? Or the cousin?"

"The guy. What was his name?"

"I dunno. The cousin...?"

"Yeah, who was the cousin? What was the cousin's name?"

"I dunno. Victor, something like that. Vinnie, maybe. I dunno."

"Vinnie, yeah. That was it. That was him."

"From Boston, yeah."

"Yeah, Boston."

"He's the button guy?"

"His cousin, yeah."

"That guy? Vinnie's cousin?"

"That's what I'm saying, yeah."

"He's the button guy?"

"Yeah."

"So what about him?"

"I heard he passed on."

"Yeah?"

"Yeah."

"The button guy died?"

"Passed on, yeah. That's what I heard."

"The guy with the shirts?"

"Yeah. But it was what he did with the buttons. That's what I remember about him."

"The buttons."

"Yeah."

"So he died, huh?"

"Passed on, yeah. He was a good man."


-- Metro North, New Haven >>> NYC
4/24/01

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