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Hanging the wash.(Short story)

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From: The American Poetry Review
Date: 20070101
Author:Topper, Rick

 
Only connect. 
--E. M. Forster 

MIDWAY THROUGH ACT I OF WEST SIDE Story, the Jets hold a war council in Doc's drugstore. Disillusioned and tired, Doc tries to talk some sense into Action, the most violent and hyperkinetic member of the "American" gang.

"Weapons," he says. "You couldn't play basketball?" Doc is irrelevant to the Jets and he knows it, but this time he pushes just a little harder. "When I was your age," he begins, but Action cuts him short:

 
  When you was my age; when my old man was my age; when my brother was 
  my age! You was never my age, none a you! ...

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