“Intuition” by Andrew Merton

(featuring the late Burt Lancaster in a supporting role)

The six of them squeeze into a booth in a seedy diner just outside
.      Newark:

click for more infoa balding child dressed as a monk

a woman with eels for fingers

an ambulance driver munching a ladder

an alligator wrapped in a boa

the late Burt Lancaster

and a swarthy, mustachioed man
with ammunition belts crisscrossing his chest,
who gazes fearfully at his companions
before revealing himself
as the great-grandson of Pancho Villa
and muttering through clenched teeth:
One of you spent time as a violist.
I can just feel it.

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