Willoughby wakes up and willoughby turns on the news and willoughby sees that Lou Reed is dead and Willoughby thinks of the first time he heard Lou Reed and tries to figure out when he will die vis a vis Lou Reed’s life expectancy. He tries to cross reference heroin and cocaine use against his own Budweiser and cigarettes. He grows weak. He says, “I don’t want to die” to no one in particular and then turns over in bed again half asleep half listening to the news about a dead Lou Reed.
Later he sits up to think about coffee and he says, “I don’t want to die.”