I Got Somebody in Staunton

When I walk out of the bathroom, these Whiteboys are staring at me as hard as they did when I first drove into the filling station. But now they're smiling, all four of them, like somebody just told a good joke about the nigger in the toilet. Keri's sitting in my car, laughing with them like they've all known each other since grade school. She probably shined up to them, and they got interested when she said something like my name's Keri, with an i, and ran her hands through her hair, the same way she warmed on to me just two hours ago

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• Author and Title Index to Callaloo Volume 26 (Whole Numbers 94-97)

  Chassati Thiele•Callaloo•2004

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