Chango's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes by William Kennedy

Author:William Kennedy
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781101544471
Publisher: Penguin Group USA, Inc.
Published: 2011-08-25T10:00:00+00:00

Her impulse was to call Alex, scream at him, do you know what just happened, my godfather, my love? No, he probably doesn’t know. She would save it till later, relish retelling the pain. Call him anyway, am I his? And she picked up the phone, but it’s tapped, and she put it back in its cradle. She searched the room with the frantic eyes of the trapped fox. Take what?—the good jewelry, the Oshun necklace Renata gave her, the letters from Mama and Max, clothes, makeup, no, leave them, leave them. She couldn’t find the necklace. She put the letters in her purse and abandoned the rest. Alas Oshun. She drove to an outdoor pay phone on Madison Avenue and called him, can they tap City Hall? She got his secretary, tell him Gloria, and he said, Yes? And she said I’m coming to see you now, a disaster, your wife, I’ll be in front of City Hall. No, he said, yes, she said and hung up and double-parked on the corner near his office window. He came down the City Hall steps and bent to her window and she said your wife knows everything and has photos and tapes. He looked over at Academy Park, up toward the Capitol, looked both ways on Eagle Street, anybody could be on a bench, in a car filming this. I can’t talk here, he said, and she said I can’t talk anywhere, where do I go, what do I do? They’re firing me from Holy Cross. How long have you been seeing the nigger, he asked. Is that all you can say? And he said nothing. She stared at his mouth. Handsome mouth, betrayed, betraying, no reverence for what was and which now is without meaning. Sex is death and God is angry with Gloria. In hell you run in the putrid swamp, devils scourge you when you fall, and your blood colors the slime. She smiled at Alex, put the car in gear and turned on the radio. Aretha Franklin. My hero, she said to him, and drove off.

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