Night Calypso by Lawrence Scott

Author:Lawrence Scott [Lawrence Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780749017576
Publisher: Allison & Busby
Published: 2014-11-22T16:00:00+00:00

AND THEN JESSE give me this chewing gum. He say, all the kids chew gum back home. Back home is South Carolina. And he start right there on a story of his Mama and Papa, only his Papa gone north and his Mama not see him for a long time, and he Jesse don’t remember him for real. He’s a man on a porch with a banjo on his knee, who gone Louisiana. He is a man with a song in his throat.

As we climb back from the shore, Jesse start to tell a story of the history of his people, which he say is the history of my people, except that, then he laugh, and rub his hands through my hair, and say I am a sandy kid. I must’ve get mixed up with some white people.

I watch him, and I slit my eyes, so.

I shrug him off. Because if he see my Mama, her skin like mahogany. If he see the beauty of it. If he see her skin that can go black as ebony. He laugh. He teasing me. That is part of our history. He prepare now to go on that path, but is a path I know well, from Mama and Mama’s grandmother, my great-grandmammy, Ma Dellacourt. He say they have black people like me in South Carolina, and he going to tell me about that.

Vincent watched Theo. He longed to hear the small voice of the boy, the boy who shouted out on the jetty when he caught his red fish. How much longer could this go on, this language of astonishment?

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