famous playwright sitting on his walker waiting for the Verdun 107 in the rain

Charlie that remembers me from Verdun High School says hi and usually he just nods cause he’s very shy and lived alone with his Ma til she died and he was always too skinny and too tall but now looking skeletal skinny with shoulders hunched from maybe AIDS or could be lung cancer cause there he is coughing on a cigarette asking me if ‘Balconville’ is out on a DVD cause his VCR version is getting scratchy and well no I said I don’t even have a copy myself and oh he says and then says he watched it again the other night with Shane who’s standing there next to Charlie in the busline and maybe that’s why Charlies in a talkative mood cause Shane talks to everybody and says he’d stand on his head if somebody would pay him
‘Life is a shit sandwich but I just eat the bread'