“New Kevin Hobster flag here,” said Pal. “Who gives a damn, honestly? It’s so stupid.”

“He told me what it means,” said the clown with the tattoo on his face.

“What?” said Pal.

“It stands for stuff — you know, symbols.”

“Who gives a shit?”

“The plus symbolizes the fact that it’s there and no one knows why — it might stand for something but we’ll never know, and no one ever will. It just is.”

“You gotta be kidding me.”

“And the clover is for the fact that he said he’s half-Irish? And it’s red, the same red that’s on the Polish flag. And he has a blue eye there too, and the blue is the same blue the Italian soccer team wears, and the initials and let’s see … “

“The yellow is the same yellow as the flag of New Jersey.”

“Good, good.”