Satori in Paris and Pic by Jack Kerouac

Author:Jack Kerouac
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grove Atlantic
Published: 1985-01-10T05:00:00+00:00

3. AUNT GASTONIA’S HOUSE

WELL, THEY TAKES ME DOWN THE ROAD to aunt gastonia’s house, and it’s a big old busted house ’case they’s eleben, twell folks livin there, from down the littlest baby-chile up to old Grandpa Jelkey ’at sits inside the house all old and blind. It ain’t like grandpa’s house no way. Is all them windows roundabout and a big brick chimbley, and the porch, it go clean around the house and chairs on it, and watermelon rinds and sand on the boards so’s a body can’t roll hisself without. My, I never seed such many flies in all my born days like I seed in that house. No, I don’t wantsa stay here. Trees in the barnyard, and cherry tree, and the good swing, but they’s six, seben chiles all squeal-in and squawkin and the pigs is not so good as grandpa’s pigs never nohow. I never seed nothin so tedious. No, I don’t wantsa stay here. Gots no place to sleep at night exceptin in one bed with th’ee, fo boys, and I can’t sleep with they elbows in my face.

Grandpa Jelkey, that man scare me ’case he say “Bring that boy here,” and they brings me, and he take a holt of me by th’ arms and look at me with one great big yaller eye but don’t aim it right, poor thing, and look clear over my head and can’t see nothing. Th’ other eye, it ain’t there no more, th’ eyeball sunk inside his head. He got no eyes, that old man. He holt me tight and hurt me, and he say, “This here is the boy. Well, I ain’t gots to touch the boy more’n one time a day.” Aunt Gastonia, she run up and pull me off. “Why you wantsa curse that boy when y’already cursed ever’body seven times? It ain’t his fault what his father done to your eyes, he’s jess a chile.” And Grandpa Jelkey, he shout up “I’se gwine touch him seben times afore he dies, ain’t nobody stop me.” “You ain’t neither,” Aunt Gastonia shout up, and Uncle Sim that’s Aunt Gastonia’s husband he gotsa take Aunt Gastonia outdoor, and me, I gotsa run and hide in the barnyard, ’case I’se sho scared Grandpa Jelkey reach out and catch me again. Nos’r, I don’t like Aunt Gastonia’s house, no.

Serpentine Grandpa Jelkey sit in the corner and eat offen his knee and ever’body else eat ’round the table-top, and Grandpa Jelkey hear ever’body talkin, and say “Is that you, boy?” and mean me. I hide b’hind Aunt Gastonia. “Come on stand by me, boy, so’s I can touch you twicet. T’won’t leave me none but four, and then you pays the curse.” “Never pay no mind whad he say,” Aunt Gastonia say to me. Uncle Sim he don’t say nothin, and he never look at me neither, and I’se so scared and so sickly, well, I don’t expect I’d a-lived in Aunt Gastonia’s house long but t’go die in the woods and being so lowly and blue.

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