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Show Go Love/130 in her hand, wide open. "Where?" The word comes from his throat-gravel out a concrete chute. My father's out of the chair-moving fast "I told him three goddamn times. Beside Jimmy " I'll never know why, I say, "If he was smart man, he wouldn't be a gravedigger." Not three feet in front of me, the place on Mama's letter where Shawn Terrence says Love, Me in loopy blue cursive, O.W. looks me in the eye. "Dumb truck driver," he says. Then, to Trace, "In the goddamn ground. Tell him to dig a hole in the goddamn ground. Beside your brother." Lara chases Tough Man through the laundry hall toward Jimmy's room, Mama's tomb "No " I scream it too late. |