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Show 98 I didn't say anything for awhile and neither did she. She shook her head, slightly. "I've been doing things," I said. "You need the money. Neda's sick. Red's not making aaxifcxgxx anything." "It's not your business what your father makes." She sat back and glanced up at The Infant, probably trying to get a message, but that wasn't her specialty. She was a sender. I picked up the cash and forced it into her hand. "There," I told her. "You're stuck with it now. Okay?" "I don't want it Jarvis." But she made a fist around it. "I'll give it to the poor." I got up and headed into the living room. "Okay," I said, "but I just did that." I spent my Sunday afternoons understanding dea ; over at Willie's and then walking xxxix over to the football field to watch Stinky Jinx tear up the grid iron. £kax The referees made him tuck in his scarf after every play, but the way he tucked it in it came out as soon as he took off i with the ball, hooting and scooting like a god-damn loony bird, xxxxax Anybody came anywhere near him he took off out of bounds, then it took half the quarter to flag him down. The other teams started lining up half their defense on the sidelines just to keep him hemmed in and Stinky's team had people all over the outside of the field to xaigxaxx flag him down just in case he got out. "Hooo-hooo!" said Stinky. "Those guys just want to grab me!" If he scored a touchdown he might be gone for the day. Stinky's coach was thinking of sand bagging the backs of the endzones. Sometimes I ran into Funly who had gone out for the team himself, but porker as he was, they stuck him on the line and he didn't last. "Boy, I'd just like iaxk to've had my .22," said Punly Funster. "I'd open some holes right up the middle." "Hmmm," I muttered. At the time, the only xka holes I could think of v/ere the ones in my arms, which made me glad it was autumn and gave me a ksxaxxxxaxixxaax whole school year to contemplate more creative placement. "That nigger across from you showed the top of his flat to Puerto Pi nans." said Funly. |