from FRED (1998)

PART V 

#1 

fred decided to buy flowers. He bought 

three orange carnations and one pink carnation 

and then couldn’t decide to whether or not 

#2 

to buy irises or babybreath with the carnations. 

Neither seemed right, and the worst thing 

in the world, fred told me later, is

#3 

to buy flowers that you don’t need 

for reasons you can’t figure out. 

#4 

Just as fred begin to say this, a shudder 

ran down my spine. I was looking at 

the church across the street and 

reading a magazine. 

#5 

“To excite enthusiasm, a design must 

suggest pace and gesture, evoke 

a moving body; it must be alive,” said 

#6 

Christian Dior in 1986 while a woman 

in an ad held a flower pot filled with

one really big crystanthemum. 

She was laughing while people ran by 

her but she really looked scared 

to death I told fred. 

fred agreed and didn’t buy 

a single flower. 

#7

On the way out, fred stole 

a box of candles.