Chimes: 2018 Edition (emended Blazevox book pdf)

#6
We had to go to an ugly place to see Grandma Bubba: a big dirty street with no
trees. There were people beaten and bloody and there were policemen but still
I would leave Bubba’s house and hang out in the lot with dirty children. They
had firecrackers and they accepted me because I did not judge them but still I
was me and they were who they were. Once one of them came to Bubba’s
door to ask for money and Bubba said no and Bubba was blind and poor and
her sisters were poor too. Bubba was blind and smoked cigarettes and made
dirty jokes that I didn’t understand. Bubba was proud of being Jewish and so
we celebrated all the Jewish holidays with her: I liked the presents best, not the
principles. The ugly place was there and never changed.
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