The Big Smoke by Adrian Matejka

Author:Adrian Matejka
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2013-05-01T16:00:00+00:00

HOSTILITIES

Belle & I returned after a fine supper

of roasted quail in the Crystal Dining

Room. Hattie was waiting in the mauve

hallway right outside our rooms.

She was angry & rigid like one

of those Buckingham guards when

it’s raining. I don’t know why she came

to San Francisco, but she wore the black

lace dress I bought for her in London.

The hem was ripped from some stumble

along the way & the smell of sweat

& beer hung on every word: Can we talk,

Papa? That’s when she saw Belle.

Naturally, there was a state of warfare

between the women & like Napoleon,

I smartly stayed out of the conflict. Belle

laughed at Hattie, but kept an eye open

while she did it. She was not concerned

with Drunk Hattie’s words. She just

wasn’t interested in meeting Drunk

Hattie’s straight-razor accompaniment.

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