Jack Cox - Dodge Rose

her mother is a friend of the familys.

o h i see, pessimum.

more like a.

he raised his eyebrows. well don be takin de green ones, he said, you goun be spittin em right back out agin.

x sighed. you gave us a fright. we thought we were on our own. where the dickens did you come from.

and you, cindie sue. me a long way away, way back. where dey make you stan holdin candles for de dinner table like you was made. stamp you like wrong securities. ahm just kiddin wid you. aint been nowhere but standin right here in broad daylight waterin dese vegetables and watchin you two break an enter.

now see here.

ah know your mammas a second cousin and you a couple o ladies so you aint forbidden to be promenadin aroun de garden pickin fruit but if you don wan anyone disturbin your peace n quiet you bettern go round back try de fanny adam trees, dat way you won need to worry about none o your beaux spottin you from the parlour over dere, you see.

thanks. bye.

so long.

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if you want.

the french doors are open. there is a crowd. we slip in behind a tall vase on the other side of which a man is standing and four women. ne se peut plus celer. larceny legacy as the poet says. honoured in his community. by day. at the far end of the room the man stands with a hammer raised in one hand as he points at people in the crowd. it is harder to make out what he is saying at this distance with all the other life. come on. i take xs hand. come on, through here. excuse me. a row of chairs. no it was the men who did the floor in the cathedral crypt. i think you must be. here, you mean, morrow had something to do with it. we have to go along the backs of the chairs to the opposite wall. when we get there we are about to push forward again when i see mother ahead of us. she is half turned towards the front of the room her hands are fluttering at her sides. someone is talking to her. and it isnt just his excessively and exorbitantly stocked garage or the cirkut cameras he never took out of their cases. you know the year he built this place instead of settling down he went and ordered a french hydroaeroplane. the parts arrived in four crates and he assembled it himself at the port in double bay. got a maurice guillaux to help him fly it too. wonder if there werent any bits left over when he was finished. excuse me. mother was opening her mouth again. raised her. she turned. her eyes. you.

run. i tell x to run i turn on my heels. i hear a thud. there is a splintering sound rising suddenly to a crash and a space emptied of people where a mass of shattered glass is falling and scattering in sculpted fragments across the floor. its falling back. the shards are falling. there is a scream then there is silence. she stares. what made her a mother. my daughter, she says. somebody pick my daughter up. which one. that one. the other can walk. its powder. dont touch. i know this game, up under the shoulders and i am soaring out of there. had a very bowel movement. it is x she is making for the back door. i grab the hem of her skirt and tow after. i will never. we are hurtling across the garden over the fence is that the word never mind no one is coming after us. probably fainted. her furious louing beastly dumbed, where are we going. i see. obvious. we dont need to go so fast not to be facetious theres no one after us wait. the masts. fly by fast as is that miss sutt shelves, i 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