JONAH WINTER

Advanced Training Exercise #27
Dick Banker

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 






 

 

 

 

Advanced Training Exercise #27

Hit me in the face.
Do it again.
Now, knee me in the groin.
A little harder this time.

Now shove me down a flight of stairs.
Ouch! ­ my head just cracked
on the marble steps.
                Nowww

we're getting somewhere.

 

 

 

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Dick Banker

There was a man named Dick Banker.
Dick Banker lived in Maine.
Dick Banker built houses for people.
People live in houses.

I worked for Dick Banker.
I hammered nails.
When I didn't hammer hard enough (the nails),
Dick Banker said, to me (I'm Jonah),

"Jonah, are you in love with that nail?"
"No," I said (to Dick Banker).
"Then hit that son of a who-ah!"
That's a thing said by Dick Banker.

One time I went to the house of Dick Banker.
Patty Banker was cooking.
Patty Banker is the wife of Dick Banker.
She is a woman.

Patty Banker brought a plate of pork chops to us.
Dick Banker asked if I was a Jew-boy.
I said "no."
He said "What are you?"

I had to think for a minute.
When I was through (thinking), I said (to Dick Banker),
"a Catholic?"
Dick Banker looked at his wife, Patty Banker.

Patty Banker made her lips go tight.
She said "I don't believe a person needs another person
to put between themselves and God."
I said, "Oh, okay."

After dinner, Dick Banker had a son.
No ­ let me try that one again.
Chris Banker lives at this house.
Chris (Banker) is the son of Dick (Banker).

After dinner, Chris Banker took out guns.
The guns were for me.
Chris Banker wanted me to shoot guns.
So he cleaned guns at table.

Chris Banker was in the army.
Dick Banker was in the Marines.
Dick banker is older than Chris Banker.
Dick Banker had to fight in wars.

Guns make Dick Banker nervous.
Dick Banker shot his first wife with guns.
She woke Dick Banker up.
(Dick Banker had been sleeping.)

He thought she was a "gook" (gook).
So Dick Banker killed his first wife.
First they put him in the jail.
Then Dick Banker got to go to the hospital.

Now Patty Banker takes care of Dick Banker.
She is also the wife of Dick Banker.
Something is wrong with Dick Banker.
(I think it is his brains ­ maybe.)

Now Dick Banker is looking at gun.
Chris banker (his son) is cleaning this gun.
The gun is pointing towards Dick Banker.
Dick Banker says:

"Point that thing the other way."
Dick Banker is a big man.
Chris Banker is a big man.
But Dick Banker is an even bigger man.

Chris Banker points gun the other way.
Dick Banker goes outside.
Patty Banker washes dishes.
I do not know what to do.

 

 

 

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