Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

(grunting in pain)

Beep. Beep. Beep.

This isn't a good idea.

(cutlery clacking)

(scoffs) If my parents knew I was getting high,

You'd be disgusting even if you weren't this fat.

Do you need anything

You fought me pretty hard for full custody.

from his teaching has been going?

High school is just bullshit.

My dad forced me to go when I was a kid.

(breathes deeply) (device beeps)

More Idaho Republicans want to see senator Ted Cruz

(indistinct chatter on TV)

(gasping) Sad story. "Just for a little while."

Mom, you're not getting any of my money.

Ellie: How much?

(sighs) You're young.

You know, it's really an amazing poem.

"In the first part of his book,

And why do I need a wheelchair?

Dad had set it all up.

Are you actually trying to parent me right now?

I pester your mom for information

And I work all the time.

Okay, I need you to rock with me.

Can I take another hit?

Charlie, god is ready to help you.

You understand me? Charlie: Liz.

When I was her age,

(chuckles dryly)

I'll be here around the same time.

He just caved in on himself,

and wanted me gone for a while.

I did some asking around, and...

I'm not interested in being saved.

Lost a ton of weight.

I hate everyone. (laughing)

Stop saying that.

he's just some worthless 19th century faggot.

I guess I just didn't need the lecture

I could have done such a thing.

when mom was in Montana, visiting grandma.

fucking health insurance!

(knock at door) Liz?

For smoking pot?

it's because I didn't read it.

I'm not leaving you alone with him.

I got you this.

I might be able to graduate.

Ellie: No, I'm not talking about what you look like.

I hope you know I wasn't talking about, um...

That is so gross, oh, my god. Take a hit.

from his own sad story.

"from his own sad story..."

(keyboard clacking)

(laughing) Did I tell you about this girl

She happy? When she drinks.

"the misdeeds of the body, then you will live."

(sighs) I know.

Fell in love, started a whole new life.

And you said, for days after that, I smelled like seawater.

"because I knew that the author was just trying

You have enough to deal with right now, you hear me?

to this girl from the church he barely knew.

Liz: No. I did.

Go to the hospital.

But later, when she was 15, 16,

bringing her over here is a bad idea.

Thomas: Yeah. "Oh."

This essay is amazing.

so it doesn't happen to you, too.

I couldn't intake air.

Yeah. You can, uh...

Through the spirit, you can put to death

(laughter on TV)

It's called Song Of Myself.

And I can help you with your work.

Just write that thing about exploding the definition of self.

Do you want me to fail out of high school?

Oh, I can come back.

You're wheezing.

or slashing her teachers' tires?

And it's the best essay I've ever read.

(Charlie coughs)

Well, of course I care.

(water trickling)

(knock at door)

The puke was bright purple, I swear.

(sighs heavily)

Charlie, need I remind you that you left us.

(phone button beeps)

If you know how to make yourself calm,

and she found my church in Waterloo somehow,

And I was left raising our kid

You don't even know where we live?

(coughing, wheezing)

Who am I gonna tell?