Jacob Lawrence, The Migration of the Negro No 53. The Negroes who had been North for quite some time met their fellowmen with disgust and aloofness. (1941)
Mark's Pages
September 30, 2002:
she burned me once with a lit cigarette
it was in a bowling alley with a group of adults
she was drunk and waved her hand while she spoke
i said "you're going to burn me with that!"
she rolled her eyes with a grownup's impatience for childhood fears and said "no I won't"
but she did
she caught me on the cheek
waving her hand drunk
