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temptation from the first conversation we had

had: black men thrusting. Most of the rest of her

answers were blurred in me listening to the

silence in my mind. But my attention came back

to the witness box when the Judge asked Anais if

she had seen me stab Myra. “Yes, I was there

when he kept thrusting Myra,” said Anais,

measuring all her words with concentration as if

she thought she were eloquent and intelligent. I

imagined that she had learnt the word thrust after

watching all those black Athletes at the London

Olympics the previous summer. She then

repeated twice the words: “Yes, he did in fact

thrust six times, I am afraid.” Frustrated, at that

point, in my mind I felt I was waiting for God, but

all I could see was Gordot, sat behind me on the

left that day, peering at the proceeding’s with his

eye contact fixed on Anais, whom was muttering

in what to me was really a complete ditz, by that

time: “I don’t know really I had a pizza in my

hand, it was blocking my view. I don’t pertain to

know how I to remember exactly where I stood,

but I saw it,” jabbered Anais after being asked by

the judge to explain where she was in the party;

her words were intermingled with big words I

knew she could not handle. Un-secure in the

knowledge of where I would lay my head after the

trial the words that formed and fell out of the

mouth of Anais diminished the remnants of

hopes that were blowing in the rainy wind, that

was persistent since I had come into this life.

After this Cesare was concentrating more of his

questions on why I in fact took three stabs at

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