Slick Willie
Let me tell you I got this friend Willie, he was in for a
thirty-year stretch but just got self-paroled. See, he puts this ladder up against
the prison wall and whaddya know, the spotlight catches him. So he looks right up
at the tower and waves, yelling “It’s okay!” and the dumb butts let him escape.
Long as I’ve known him, he’s robbed banks. “That’s where the
money is,” that’s how a newspaper quoted him. Me, I mostly rob the
five-and-dimes like Woolworth’s, and right now I’m doing a nickel for it
upstate. But Willie puts on a disguise, walks into a bank waving a Tommy gun, and
just like Bob’s your uncle he walks out with loot. The gun’s always unloaded,
he says, because a loaded gun might hurt somebody. The bank tellers never know
that, though.
So why does he do it? Money’s the motive, sure, but I think
there’s something else. There’s a pure joy in the act of it, like the robbery
itself is a work of art. It’s like the way Joe Dimaggio smacks a double, the
way Enrico Caruso hits high C, the way Pablo Picasso paints whatever the fuck
he paints. It’s like getting up and going to work at a job you love.
Not everyone appreciates Willie’s dedication to his art, of
course, like cops and judges. He’s spent as much of his life in the can as out
of it, and dollars’ll get you donuts he hasn’t seen the inside of a prison cell
for the last time. But if he does come back inside, he has a lot of friends to
look out for him. He’s never been known to hurt a soul, and he loves to teach his
craft.
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