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My G.o.d--his back!
JONATHAN
My back's broken, Hank.
HANK
Listen, he's saying my name. We wuz pals, sure nuff.
JONATHAN
My back's broken, Hank.
[_The curtain has risen unnoticed._
_A faint light that grows steadily brighter as light does when one comes out of a swoon discloses Jonathan and Hank seated on a log at the left of the stage, where the bench had been. Jonathan seems much older, and he is crooked and dirty and unkempt, and Hank is somewhat brutalised, less negative._
JONATHAN
My back's broken, Hank.
[_Hank looks at him._
Tired?
HANK
Sure....
JONATHAN
I think Uncle Nathaniel would help me if he saw me.
HANK
He couldn't do nothin' for you. You can't straighten a crooked back....
JONATHAN
Hank, I'm tired of this and I'm going back.
HANK
Going back where?
JONATHAN
I'm going back home.
HANK
Your Uncle John won't let you in.
JONATHAN
Uncle Nathaniel will take me in.
HANK
He ain't there no more and besides he won't know you.
JONATHAN
Honest--don't you think he would?
HANK
Sure, he wouldn't.
JONATHAN
I wish I hadn't run away.
HANK
If you don't quit wis.h.i.+ng I'll run away from you.
JONATHAN
You wouldn't leave me, would you, Hank?
HANK
Sure, I'd leave you.... What do you think I am--a wis.h.i.+ng stone?... I want peace, I do.... An' your wis.h.i.+ng's disturbing my peace.... Every day fer six years you squeal about what you done.... Your Uncle John swatted you and you burned your theatre things and jumped out o' the window and broke your back and I saved you....
JONATHAN
I can't do anything with a broken back!
HANK
What do you want to do anything for?
JONATHAN
Sometimes I'd like to write a little.
HANK
