The Young Sopranos (I-III)
The
Young Sopranos
(I-III)
"MEMENTO MORI"
By
J. BECK--2024
AJ SOPRANO & OMERTA
"A Prince therefore being compelled knowingly to adopt the Beast ought choose the Fox & Lion because the Lion cannot defend himself against snares & the Fox cannot defend himself against Wolves. Therefore it is necessary to be a Fox to discover the snares & a Lion to terrify the Wolves."
(Those who rely simply on the Lion do not understand what they are about.)
From: THE PRINCE
Author: Nicolo Machiavelli
Published: 1532
"This
is NYC's Q104.3FM--I trust you are getting where you need to be with the
"Morning Rush" traffic at a standstill. It's utterly miserable out there. So slow it down & "Take it
Easy." Let's all get where there is safe & sound! I hope you are somewhere dry with a hot cup
of coffee & have brought an umbrella with you today on this raw drizzling Monday morning?!
Now
we are going to play for you to start this first day of a new week one of the
most iconic songs from the Vintage Music Era of
"Classic Rock" in the early 1980's.
A song made by the American band Topping BILLBOARD'S HOT 100 SINGLES. It is from the band's 8th studio recorded album entitled ESCAP3 on the Columbia Record Label Released on July 31 1981
JOURNEY: "Don't Stop Believing."
https://youtu.be/1k8craCGpgs?si=toRtzuakdqtp3ByM
"OH, NO. Not Today."
(CLICK OFF)
Slapping,
frantic sounds of over-working windshield wipers; Hopping &
dragging back & forth across a steamy, rock-chip--cracked windshield. Resistting the friction, created between the
streaky, scratched windshield glass & the hanging, weather-rotted rubber
wipers in the intermitten--indifferent, Spring deluge, ushering out the Winter.
Meadow
Soprano smacks the peeling foam covering of the off-center steering-wheel with
both hands, "Goddamn it!" Being frustrated & half-awake, Meadow
was running late. She was stuck in the NYC "AM Rush," in an accident
caused taffic jam on the freeway. Finding herself without a cup of coffee &
cigarettes. She stares at at the
flashing radio clock giving the wrong time.
Meadow glances at her wrist-watch, "Fuck."
"This
car is such a piece a shit," she sighes.
Running her fingers through her wet-showered hair as the dashboard LOW
FUEL light flashed on. "Come
on," she whines to herself: "What ELSE, can go wrong?" (Her
cell-phone screen turns off--LOW POWER.) "That's just fucking GREAT!"
She throws it in her purse.
Meadow is a public defender attorney & She was late for an appointment at the local POLICE Precinct's Jail-house to meet with a new client. A Jack Black, a retired military special ops veteran that was arrested & charged with the murder of a homeless person.
Entering
a silent, private, sound-insulated investagation room from the noisey Precenct
corridor with a small foam cup of jailhouse coffee & her drippy folded
umbrealla in tow; Meadow stands it up in the corner behind the heavy green
steel door to dry out.
Without
peering up, she removed a lap-top & yellow legal writing pad to sit down
opposite of her new client sitting at the opposite end of a long wooden table.
"I
apologized Mr. Black for my tardiness, but --"You are late."
"
Yes I see that." Meadow said.
" I guess I am late." Peering up at the loud-ticking,
over-sized wall clock before she glances down at the time on her dead cell
phone's black screen. Then she looks at her late grandmother Liva's old
wrist-watch. Sighing, Meadow answered: "Well, Mr. Black, I'm here
now."
But
when Meadow looked up at her new client, Jack Black face to face she was shook.
"
Is there something wrong Ms. Weiss?"
Jack Black asked.
Standing
strait up out of her chair, Meadow covers her mouth to dash out. But she struggles to open the heavy
green door to the point of panic & exit
to the WOMENS Restroom across the wet fresh mopped hallway floors.
Meadow
ran through the gray painted restoom door past a female police officer washing
her hands at the sink into an open toliet stall to heave her guts up loudly.
"Oh
my," she could hear the officer's echoing voice say as she followed Meadow
into the cramped restroom stall. The
female police officer knelt down beside her on the floor before the white
porcelian toliet. Wiping her
stringy fallen hair from Meadow's pastey
pale face & holding her limp, weaken body up with her strong hold while
quietly cradling her.
"Morning
sickness?"
Meadow
peers up with tears in her red glazey eyes to answer the concerned officer,
"I sure hope the fuck not."
"Come
on let me help you up dear." Almost lifting Meadow up off her feet. "You're so strong?"
"Here
let me wipe off your face & mouth with this cold wet paper towel. Is that better?" "Yes--Thank you."
"You're
welcome dear." She leads Meadow out to sit down on a chair in the
hall. The officer told the guard to
return the prisonier back to his cell while she collected Meadow's things.
Meadow didnt look up when Jack Black was being taken out of the conference room
& stood to recieve her computer bag & damp umbrella--"You'll need
this." The female officer warmly
smiled. "Yes. Thank you.
Good day."
II
"This
is WNYC--FM 93.9 Public Radio with the Breaking Headline News: UN warns the
World is facing a Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen, Somaila, South Sudan &
Nigeria. 20 million people are at risk of starvation & famiine."
Oh, thats Horrifying!" (CLICK OFF)
Meadow
left DUMBO for Jersey taking the Tunnel under Hudson River to visit her Aunt
Janice at SATRIALES--Meat Market in the Kearny neighborhood. Arriving she finds her little brother Anthony
Soprano Jr. sitting out front at the small round tables with plastic red &
white checkered table-clothes. Meadow
walks up grabbing the table-cloth feeling it. "Plastic?--How Tacky!"
"Hey Sis--Yea it's Janice's idea, to save
money I guess?" Hey A.J.--It sounds
more like she'd rather throw them away instead of washing them. "What are you doing?" A.J. holds up
a fat drippy droopy Satriale's sandwich smothered with coleslaw, "Eating."
"You're
always eating!"
"Yea? I'm hurngry. I just finished shooting a round of golf at the Skyline Coarse under the
Jersey Bridge in between the rain showers.
What you Golf? Since when? Yea, since high school. I took it as a gym credit to avoid
running." Now that, sounds like one of your moves." Yea, the Lesser of 2 Evils!"
Meadow
leans over & kisses A.J.'s cheek.
"What's that for Bing?"
"Oh,
I don't know. Just finish your
sandwich! Where's Janice?" Meadow takes a paper napkin to wipe the
corner of his mouth. "Give me
that!" A.J. glares at her.
"What's wrong with you?"
"Nothing. Where is she? "
"
Inside, on the phone, talking.
Why?"--"Oh, Just Girls
Talk."
"What? Are you pregnant?"--
"No! Thank-you." & Meadow spins around
on her heel to grab the front door to enter. Then she stops, "Hey
A.J.?" (What?) Meadow flips him off & pokes her long tongue
out at her little brother saying, "Fuck You!" laughing to the sound of the ringing doorbell as she entered the Market.
Inside, Meadow interupts their Aunt Janice in the office on a phone call. Janice waves for her niece to come in & covered the phone's mouth-piece. "Hey Bing! What's up?" Looking sideways up behind her at the wall clock, "Damn it--I'm on Hold!"
"Can
we go somewhere & talk?"
"Is
there something wrong Honey?"
"I
don't know?"
"OK,
Wait." she holds up her index finger as she listened to the earphone. "Music."-- Janice slams the
reciever down to hang-up.
"Asshole!--Let's go!"
Janice said smiling & taking Meadows arm kissing her cheek.
Outside,
"See you A.J."
"Bye
Bing."--(Don't be a Stranger, Sis.)
Meadow
asked Janice, "Whose the "Madman Across the Water?" "Who?" Meadow points as they get into the car.
"Oh, that's Paulie Walnuts!" (Dad's old friend? Wearing a bathrobe
& slippers?) "Yea, he thinks that he is "The Chin!" (Who?) "Nevermind. He's is in trouble with the Feds & He's
using mental illness to avoid going to trial."
"That's
terrible. Mental Health is a real issue in our country & He's making a
mockery of it--No Wonder, it isn't taken seriously!"
Janice
gives her niece a sideways look--"Hungrey?"
"Yea,
Sure." (For What?) "Vanillla Milkshake."
"Oh,
That sounds Good!" (& Salty French Fries!) "That doesn't, sound
Good?" (But it is!) "I'll take
your word for it Meadow!" (So Good!)
"You
should try it!"(No Thanks Bing)
III
Sitting
down together in a booth at the neighborhood diner with their food trays. Janice sat across in horror watching Meadow
dip her hot, salty french fries in her milkshake. Making a funny face as Meadow ate the drippy
fries. "Ummm." Holding the fry up above her head to lick
drips running down her arm.
"What?" (Wiping her forearm clean with a napkin) Then she
pulls out a long salty fry & dips it in her milkshake saying, "Oh,
it's a fat one too!" Looking up at
Janice, with a dirty grin, "Here."
Janice
frowns saying she has her own food gesturing, shaking her hanging head. "Come on Aunt Janice. Open your mouth. Stick out your tongue. I know you know how!"
Janice
reluctantly obeying, closes her eyes tight as she slowly opens her mouth Meadow
held out the drippy, loaded french fry to feed her it. Chew it up &
swallow! You can't "Spit" it
out! Almost causing Janice to cough,
laughing & covering her mouth as she swallowed with a smile opening her
eyes. "Well?" ( Its OK. I
guess) Janice shakes her head yes as she reaches across the table to steal a
second one & Meadow slaps her hand,
"Get your own!" (Just one more) "OK, just one--more, that's it!"
They laugh as Janice agrees, "They are Good!" Meadow dips another
& smiles, "See!"
"So
Meadow what is it that's bothering you dear?" Janice asked.
"You
won't believe this, (Try me) I seen Daddy's murderer today."
"What
did you say?"--I seen the man who killed my father, face to face."
(Are you sure) "Yes--No, I'm
not. It all happened so sudden." (All?) I just looked up & there he was.
(Where?) " At the Precinct Jailhouse."
"Did
he recongnize you too?" (No, I don't believe so) "How do you
know?" (I don't)
"But,
I had to run out of the room so fast to puke in the restroom across the
hallway! (Really?) "Yes."
"Ahhh
I'm sorry about that Princess..."
"When
I finished barffing up my guts, a female officer assisted me & had the
prisonier returned to his cell, then retrieved my things for me." (That's
nice)
"What
are you going to do Bing?" Janice
asked, while leaning over the table & Dipping another french fry in
Meadow's milkshake.
"Stop--Dip
it in yours."
"I
have the right to decline the case, for whatever reason & another attorney
will be assigned to it."
Then
Janice mistakenly asked, "So what is his name? What was he charged with?"
"I
can't tell you that!" (Why Not?) "Because. I have swore an Oath." (What kind of
Oath?) "For Protecting the Rights of Confidentuality shared between the client & their lawyer!"
Janice
looks blankly, seeing she struck a nerve with her niece. Circling back around she says, "It's
probably not the same person anyway... (Let's eat)
"I'm
not hungry. I'll be waiting in the
car."
...
(To Be Continued)
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