Random Acts of Senseless Violence by Jack Womack

Author:Jack Womack
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Published: 1993-09-21T16:00:00+00:00

APRIL 23

Daddy will receive a full paycheck this week again so we get something to eat besides spaghetti. I studied what I needed to study today but probably for not as long as I should have, I just couldn’t concentrate. I wonder if I have a brain tumor or something.

Boob stayed in bed today with the covers up over her head. Mama was upset. ‘Oh sweetie I don’t know what we’re going to do about your sister’ she said. ‘What do you mean the way she’s always quiet all the time?’ I asked. ‘Yes my angel yes’ Mama said. She told me one of Boob’s teachers called her on Monday and said Boob was so withdrawn and depressed that we’d have to have her checked out by a shrink. Her teacher said that she could tell it wasn’t child abuse like we were beating her or anything but that it was something just as bad. Mama held her head in her hands and cried and cried. ‘My angel I just don’t know how we can I’m trying to find someone who’ll see her for cheap but no go. Will Boob talk to you sweetie do you think she will?’ she asked. ‘I keep trying to get her to talk but I’ll try again’ I said. ‘Please do angel please do’ Mama said.

So I went into our room and lay down on the bed next to Boob. ‘What is it Boob you can’t just stop talking like this you can’t’ I said. ‘Yes I can’ Boob said. ‘What’s the matter Boob you can tell me you know you can’ I said. ‘No I can’t’ she said. Then she rolled over and wouldn’t say anything else. I stayed there a long time but she kept still and finally I heard her start to snore. I got back up and told Mama. Mama was still in the kitchen and she hadn’t started working on her manuscripts yet. ‘Don’t worry though I’ll get her to talk again’ I said. Of course Anne I don’t know if I car or not but I’ll try. ‘I’m sorry I’m such a bad mother it’s just like Chrissie said’ Mama said. It made me so mad that Chrissie upset her so much and it made me mad that she was letting herself be upset too. There wasn’t any reason she should worry about what Chrissie had to say. I know there’s no reason why I should worry about what the girls at school say either but I do, but Mama’s old enough to know better.

‘Fuck Chrissie’ I said. Even when I said it I knew I shouldn’t but I didn’t care. Mama’s eyes got big as saucers. I thought she was going to explode but didn’t. ‘Angel I’ve never heard you say that word before’ Mama said. ‘I don’t say it often’ I said. In fact even though I’ve written it before I don’t think I’ve ever said it until today. ‘But it’s true’ I said and then said it again.

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