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28 BOBBY Nothing. THEO You've got to see something-even an idiot have impressions BOBBY I ain't no idiot. THEO All right, fool then. BOBBY Now look, you better stop throwing them words "fool" and "idiot" at me any time you feel like it. I'm gon' be one more fool, and then my fist is gonna land right upside your head! THEO Take it easy now——I tell you what: try to see something. BOBBY Try? THEO Yeah, close your eyes and really try. BOBBY (Closes his eyes.) Okay, I'm trying, but I don't know how I'm gon' see anything with my eyes closed! THEO Well, open them! BOBBY They open. THEO Now tell me what you see. BOBBY I see paint. THEO I know you see paint, stupid. 29 BOBBY (Slaps him ferociously across the face.) Now I told you about that! Every time you call me out of my name, you get hit! THEO You'll never understand! BOBBY All I know is that a picture is supposed to be pretty, but I'm sorry, that mess you got there is downright ugly! THEO You're hopeless.——You understand this, don't you, Pop? (Holding the paint for him to see.) MR.PARKER (Not looking at the painting.) Don't ask me——I don't know nothing about no painting. THEO You were an artist once. MR.PARKER That was a different kind. THEO Didn't you ever go out on the stage with a new thing inside of you? One of them nights when you just didn't want to do that ol' soft shoe routine? You knew you had to do it-after all, it was your job-but when you did it, you gave it a little bit here, a little acid there, and still, with all that, they laughed at you anyway. Didn't that ever happen to you? MR.PARKER More than once... But you're bull-shittin', boy, and you know it. You been something new every year since you quit school. First you was going to be a racing-car driver, then a airplane pilot, then a office big shot, and now it's a painter. As smart a boy as you is, you should've stayed in school, but who do you think you're fooling with them pictures?-It all boils down to one thing: you don't want to work. But I'll tell you something, Theo: time done run out on you. Adele's not playing, so you might as well put all that junk and paint away.
