12. Creature Made of Clay

What is the relationship, the true relationship, between artist and muse? Harry realizes that he has always had a muse, after Lemonade enters his door at the Tarantula Arms. Harry is on stage at the Crybaby Bar where he promises never to sing a covering ever again. He will sing his own tunes come hell or high water. And he will start with, 'There's a Sadness Going Around.' But there on stage, haunted as if by demons that have come to remind him of some contract he signed, his mind goes to the faithful night at Jollimore's, the trailer with the blue wings down at the tides, the delta of Slow River.