lady blue

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He enters
     a desert outskirt region where he finds an automobile
        graveyard. He is wandering in Eternity. In the junkyard,
        three people squat around a small fire. They're cooking potatoes
        in the coals, an older man named DOC pokes the fire
        with a stick. There is an older woman, funky, glamorous,
        and the third person is a young boy, a mute, of indeterminate
        age. He is slightly made up with white makeup. They are
        hoboes in Eternity and are not surprised to see him. He nears
        the fire.

                                 DOC
                Well, how ya doin', kid? I see you
                did it again. Ya hungry? There's
                some food here if ya want it.

        Billy doesn't speak. He stares at the moon. The woman has
        kept her head down, her hair covering her face.

                                DOC
                Billy's back. Blue Lady, didja hear
                me? I said Billy's back.

        She looks up for the first time.

                             BLUE LADY
                Hi, Billy.

                               BILLY
                Hello, Blue Lady.

        He looks at the boy.

                Hiya, Clown Boy.

        CLOWN BOY claps his hands and nods, his face contorted
        grotesquely in greeting. They sit for a while like this, and
        stare at the fire. They eat the potatoes. Then Doc rises and
        says:

                                DOC
                The sun's gonna be up in a while. I
                guess we'd better move on.

        Slowly, one by one, the other two rise. Doc puts out the fire
        with dirt and says:

                                DOC
                Ya comin' with us, Billy?

                               BILLY
                          (thinking hard)
                I don't know, Doc, I just don't know.

        Doc smiles.

                                DOC
                Well, we'll see ya later, kid. The rest
                of the gang will be real glad to see
                ya. They sure will. Well...

        Doc, Clown Boy and the Blue Lady start moving toward
        the rising sun into the mountain desert. Every now and then
        they turn and wave, Clown Boy leaping up and down madly
        and waving good-bye.

        As they slowly disappear, camera changes focus to Billy, the
        hitchhiker, the kid,  hunkered over the dead smoldering fire.

                              the end


- Morrison