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Show of the Infant of Prague. A few people had thrown trash on Xxxxxxxx Red's lawn, and a few dogs pissed on the big maple tree in xxxxg front of the hoUse or on the St. Joseph lillies in front of the porch when the neighborhood was just changing, just at the very first. But Red swept down from his porch like a ixxxx tremendous angry wallXanger. He kicked the dogs like xxxfrixxx lightening and afterwards he was the thunder in dog hearts on 2^-th street. They walked the sidewalks until they got to Red's, and when they did they circled in the street. He swarmed the litterers and gave them a dollar for candy or a drink, then told them if they ever did it again they'd eat the paper they threw and his fist would follow, x So he sat on his iron chair in the center of his porch at the front of his house in the center of 2^-th street, and I watched him during the years he loved me and the years he wanted to kill me and the years he loved me and knew what he was thinking? he wanted Helen out there with him. But Helen wasn't coming out. Red was convinced that Helen had changed since xxxix the operation she had after Andrew. I wasn't any trouble for Helen and Mxxixxxxxxx neither was Neda, but Joseph didn't want to come out of her for all the life in the world, and when he did, after raising hell in Helen for a day, he came out deaf in one ear, blind in the opposite eye, and he couldn't smell either. Kid's been living his life on government scholarship ever since and he's about as handicapped as a hot dog. The doctor told Helen not to have anymore kids and that's when I first remember her spending a lot of time at church. She always went every Sunday, but after Joseph she was there every other day and fighting with Red in between about the pill, then about being Catholic, "' ,Red start cursing the Pope and Helen started cursing Red's family and then Red would grab Helen by the neck and put her against the wall. I remember the tears in Red's eyes. His face was Red and he was crying and Helen choked at him, "Go ahead you god-damn heathen, kill me, you god-damn heathen," and Red just held her and cried and cried and cried, xxxxxxxxxixxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxixxxxxxa Then he let her £ go. He took his fist and put it through the basement door, aixai or the back door or some door and Helen told him that was all he was god-damned good for. Red came up to me, his face like a rotfcten tomato, and said, "I hate that woman, that fuckin woman, and I hope God's Catholic |