daddy sang bass and momma sang tenor as the coins were ripped out of curt wilcox 's pants and his penis was torn off like a weed and his balls were reduced to strawberry jelly and his comb and wallet landed on the yellow line ; bradley roach responsible for all that , or maybe you wanted to save some blame for dicky 's convenience in statler that sold him the beer , or maybe for the beer company itself with its goodtime ads about cute talking frogs and funny ballpark beer-men instead of dead people lying by the highway with their guts hanging out , or maybe you want to blame it on bradley 's dna , little twists of cellular rope that had been whispering drink more , drink more ever since bradley 's first sip ( because some people are just wired up that way , which is to say like suitcase bombs ready to explode , which is absolutely zero comfort to the dead and wounded ) .