the last book I ever read (Sam Shepard's Fool for Love, excerpt one)

from Fool for Love by Sam Shepard:

MAY: So, now we’re gonna’ get real mean and sloppy, is that it? Just like old times.

EDDIE: Well, I haven’t dropped the reins in quite a while ya’ know. I’ve been real good. I have. No hooch. No slammer. No women. No nothin’. I been a pretty boring kind of a guy actually. I figure I owe it to myself. Once a once.