Penitent Soul

Don’t you do it.

Same shit, different day. How's it going with you?

I hate warm weather.

I feel like there's a dog joke in there somewhere.

Well, great. That’s just what everyone wants to hear.

You asked what it meant.

I ain’t broke.

Everyone in this house is broke. And sorry son, but that includes you.

The fact it means nothing to me, means something?

Means he broke you.

Not to me,they don’t.

And that means something.

When you get used to getting punches they don’t really mean anything anymore.

Bullshit they don't. Whether they hurt anymore or not, they still mean something.

Nah, I don’t mind. You go ahead. Do your thing, Cormac. You get to say goodbye too.

When are you gonna do it? Today?

Well, I’m fucked up then.

Yeah. We've had that conversation. Couple of times. I'm just sayin' I'd be more mad at the guy hittin' me. That's all.

She ran out and left me and my brother with him. So yeah, I’m more bitter at her.

Still seems fucked.

Yeah. I don’t think she really ever even liked them, but I’ll make Opie sing some sort of funeral hymn.

I think it's okay. You mind if I come? I could say a prayer or something.

Yeah, stabbed a guy for an eight ball yesterday.

I can't actually tell if you're kidding or not.

I don’t know. Maybe she didn’t want kids so she ditched the ones she had like the loving mother she is.

It seems kinda fucked that you sound more bitter at her than the guy that beat you.

That's the idea. Why, you kill someone?

Yeah, and her sons.

Why her sons?

I don’t want to. I mean, I do. I just… That’s not how that was supposed to come out.

Well you at least gonna say a few words? Like... they were good lava lamps. Maybe someday they'll rise again. Somethin'?

Mother.

So it's probably your da she's tryin' to stay hidden from?