I was jockey once. I was hot walker. I hate Zionist pigs. The jockeys razzed him--fuck you, Fritz--you're a camel jockey.
Sirhan walked to the bar. Pete tailed him. Sirhan drank vodka shooters with candy-bar chasers. Sirhan chomped ice cubes.
Sirhan trawled for Jews. Sirhan fixed on big schnozzolas. Sirhan jumped stools. Sirhan walked to the john. Pete tailed him. Sirhan trawled urinals.
Sirhan bagged a toilet stall. Pete loitered close. Sirhan shit long and loud. Sirhan walked out. Pete walked in. Pete saw toilet scrawls: Pigs of Zion!
Blood Licker Jews!
RFK Must Die!
Pete called Fred O. Pete said, "He looks good." Pete drove downtown. Pete hit the Hall of Justice. Pete hit the state horse race board.
He flashed a Rice Krispies badge. He conned a clerk. He cadged an employee file check.
The clerk showed him a file bank. He saw six drawers alphabetic. The clerk yawned. The clerk split. The clerk took a java break.
He pulled the S drawer. He finger-walked. He found "Sirhan, Sirhan B." He skimmed two pages. He got: Sirhan was a hot walker. Sirhan fell off horses. Sirhan bonked his head repeatedly. Sirhan drank too much. Sirhan gambled too much. Sirhan defamed Jews.
He found a memo. The board sent Sirhan to a shrink. A pork dodger/Dr. G. N. Blumenfeld/out in West L.A.
Pete laughed. Pete walked. Pete found a pay phone. He called Fred O. He said, "He looks great."
He tired fast. He tired hard. It killed him. The day fucking killed him. Cane tails at age forty-seven.
He hit his motel. He took his pills. He snarfed his blood-thinning drops. He chewed Nicorette gum. He ate his rabbit-food dinner.
He was shot. He was dead whipped. He tried to sleep. His circuits disconnected. Recent shit recohered.
Barb/the boat/the Big Lie. Wayne/the King hit/Bobby.
Barb made sense. Nothing else. Barb dug on Bobby. Barb would mourn Bobby. Barb might link him to the hit. She might do a "Not Again" number. She might freak and split. She might leave him for Bobby and Jack.
It scared him. Nothing else did. No outrage or fugue for la Causa. No fear outside that.
My shit's too exhausting. I'm dispersed and dead whipped. I'm shot.
He checked the Yellow Pages. He got the shrink's address. He slept.
He got six hours. He revived. He went out sans cane. G. N. Blumenfeld/ office on Pico/out in West L.A.
2:30 a.m.--sleepytime L.A.
He drove out. He parked curbside. He checked the building: Stucco/one-story/six doors in a row.
He grabbed his penlight. He grabbed a pocket knife. He grabbed his Diners Club card. He got out. He tilt-walked, Where's my fucking cane?
He made the door. He flashed the lock. He tapped the keyhole. Go--the knife blade/the card/one sharp twist.
He got leverage. He applied force. The door popped.
He tilt-walked inside. He caught his breath. He pulled the door shut. He flashed the waiting room. He saw clown prints. He saw one desk and one couch.
He flashed a side door. He saw a caduceus. He saw G. N. BLUMENFELD. He walked over. He braced off the walls. His breath snagged and huffed.
He tried the door. It was unlocked. There's the shrink chair. There's the file bank. There's the shrink couch.
His breath jerked. He got dizzy He stretched out on the couch. He laughed--I'm Sirhan Sirhan--RFK watch out!
He got his breath. He stowed the yuks. His pulse leveled out. He flashed the file bank: A to L/M to S/T to Z.
He got up. He pulled drawer handles. The file drawers slid out. M to S--be there, you fuck.
He pulled drawer 2. He finger-walked. He found him: one folder/two pages/three-visit summary He flashed the pages. Quotes leaped: "Memory loss." "Fugue states." "Disoriented condition."
"Overdependence on supportive male figures."
Boffo quotes. Fred O. would swoon. Hello, you camel jockey!
DOCUMENT INSERT: 4/11/68. Atlanta Constitution headline and subhead:
SEARCH FOR KING ASSASSIN BROADENS.
FBI IN MASSIVE HUNT.
DOCUMENT INSERT: 4/12/68. Houston Chronicle headline and subhead:
LAUNDRY-MARK CLUE ID'S ASSASSINATION SUSPECT.
SEARCH WIDENS IN LOS ANGELES.
DOCUMENT INSERT: 4/14/68. Miami Herald subhead:
RIOT DAMAGE ASSESSED IN WAKE OF KING ASSASSINATION.
DOCUMENT INSERT: 4/15/68. Portland Oregonian headline and subhead:
ASSASSIN'S CAR FOUND IN ATLANTA.
SEARCH FOR SUSPECT GALT BROADENS.
DOCUMENT INSERT: 4/19/68. Dallas Morning News subhead:
HUNT FOR KING ASSASSIN "#1 PRIORITY," HOOVER SAYS.
DOCUMENT INSERT: 4/20/68. New York Daily News headline and subhead:
FINGERPRINT CHECK YIELDS PAYDIRT!.
"GALT" REVEALED AS PRISON ESCAPEE!.
DOCUMENT INSERT: 4/22/68. Chicago Sun-Times headline and subhead:
RFK IN HUGE INDIANA PRIMARY PUSH.
CITES LEGACY OF DR. KING.
DOCUMENT INSERT: 4/23/68. Los Angeles Examiner subhead:
SKID ROW MURDER VICTIM DURFEE REVEALED AS LONG-SOUGHT RAPIST-KILLER.
DOCUMENT INSERT: 5/7/68. New York Times headline:
RFK WINS INDIANA PRIMARY.
DOCUMENT INSERT: 5/10/68. San Francisco Chronicle headline: