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Miss Celia stares down into the pot like she’s looking for her future.

bout give me a cadillac arrest

she is the laziest woman I’ve ever seen.

Miss Celia fidgets, looking more like a five-year-old than the rich lady paying my rent.

“Yeah,” I say and run my tongue up over my teeth because if that’s not an insult, I don’t know what is.

I’ve never met a white person worse off than me except for crazy Mister Wally, lives behind the Canton feed store and eats the cat food.

His claws are long, curled, witchy-looking.

forty-five things fall down on my head.

her tight Friday-night clothes on even though it’s Tuesday

you are heavy as a house, Minny.”