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Coe Review • Issue 22 “No,” I said. Marisa came into the living room and started dancing by herself, looking very soft and furry with her sweater and the grey downy stubble on her head, and Marisa’s eyes were closed, and she danced and danced on the rug, and Jenny said wryly, “Marisa! Pull him up and make him dance. I’ve never seen him dance” - and Marisa came over and stared expressionlessly into Jenny’s face, and said coolly, “And you never will.” For Jacob Dickinson and Janis Kibe Dickinson 51
Blue Lick Chris Offutt Coe Review • Issue 22 The funny-talked lady gave me a ten page test that like to drove me blind marking in little circles no bigger than a baby catfish eye. When I was done, she said I was precocious. Then she called me a poor dear and I got mad on account of Daddy telling me never to let nobody say we were poor. He said to fight them if they did. I put my dukes up and she saw how mad I was and asked me whatever for in that funny-talked way of hers. I told her straight out, and she said, “I don’t mean poor like that, there’s other ways.” She just set and looked at me, real pale like she never got out much. On her back was a new flannel shirt, still yet with the folding marks not wore out. She wore red-laced shiny boots and jeans. I’d never seen a woman wear blue jeans before unless it was somebody’s granny but she wasn’t that old. I put my fists back down. She kept looking at me like I was some kind of black snake that you ain’t supposed to kill or the rats will eat you out. If you see one you just watch that old snake to make sure it don’t get too close. My Daddy said he went and chopped a black snake in half when he was little, and his own Daddy tied him to a bucket and lowered him down a well over killing it. Daddy seen stars and it full day. Down below it was blacker than a cow’s insides and the brick well-walls were slick as snot on a glass doorknob. He said they’ve got glass ones down to the courthouse. Daddy ought to know because he’s been there plenty, which is why I took them precocious tests anyhow. She wasn’t a state lady and she wasn’t from town. She was some kind of lady from off that got sent here over me and my brother, who can’t talk plain. He can’t say his Rs or his Ls, and there’s some sounds he don’t even know. I’m the one to understand him most. He ain’t precocious. What he is, is a singer, singing made up stuff. Daddy calls him Little Elvis. That lady, she went and reached her hand over mine and it was the smoothest thing, smoother than a horse’s nose hole, which is pure soft. She held my hand like you do a frog when you’re fixing 52
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