The Sexy Part of the Bible by Kola Boof

Author:Kola Boof
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Akashic Books
Published: 2011-10-22T04:00:00+00:00

THREE NIPPLES, DEAR EYE

When the car stopped and I heard my kidnapper get out from the driver’s side, I felt it again—that you would be born. Because of that I lost all fear, realizing that the kidnapper might be Tiberius. As he popped open the trunk and the roundest, pearliest white moon shone down upon me, I squinted, relieved that it was indeed my brother. But then I got frightened again when he pulled his shirt over his head, revealing his tattooed chest as he explained, “I’m sorry I had to chloroform you, but my leader ordered that you be fetched.”

“Who’s this leader you keep talking about?”

He hoisted my body from the trunk and said, “King Sea Horse Twee.”

Dear Eye, of course I was shocked, outraged, and strangely titillated to hear that it was Sea Horse who had me abducted, and that I was about to be reunited with him. But the thing that left me speechless was the sight of the Bedee family’s secret; the birthmark on my brother’s bare chest that I’d hidden from Ma Nonni all the days I’d known her—his third nipple. He had a normal one on the right side of his chest, but then two on the other side—one an inch and a half south of his left clavicle, the other a quarter-inch below and to the side of that one—with both of them completely out of alignment with the right nipple.

As Tiberius continued raving about Sea Horse—“The greatest warrior trickster, the greatest Twee since Fela Kuti, since Steve Biko, since Malcolm X“—my stare became riveted to the beautiful tattoo that was apparently supposed to hide his freakish left nipples. In fact, the upper nipple had been disguised to form the head of the green-and-red Sea Horse that rose just above a dagger— but no matter, I knew they were there.

He slammed the trunk shut. And as he carried me around and propped me up in the front seat, I realized that we had left the hot November night winds of the African savannah and were pointed toward the cool opening locks of the Katanga Jungle. Staring as deep as he could see inside my eyes, Tiberius kissed me very gently on the mouth. Then he said, “I had a sister once who looked like you. You’re the reincarnation of her.”

I bristled. “There’s no such thing as reincarnation.”

Tiberius ignored me. “I was seven. At the exact moment when her heart stopped beating, I felt it stop, and her spirit brushed right past my shoulder—I wanted to die too.”

“But you would have been disappointed,” I told him, “because there’s no such thing as death. Our living in this world is not life; not the real life.”

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