Call and Response by T. R. Pearson

Author:T. R. Pearson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Barking Mad Press
Published: 2011-06-08T12:06:46+00:00

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IT wasn't like she needed another one since she had already two anyhow if you didn't count the Barefoot that she had as well, the Barefoot from the depot who'd gotten his necktie touched and admired like he'd come to be fairly charmed on account of, but she got another one nonetheless just by sheer and unmitigated happenstance chiefly and armtouching a little as well, tattootouching in fact though she'd not known when she said her ooooh and extended her fingers that a tattoo was what she might touch.

Tiny Aaron had been himself enduring lately a spell of snake trouble, not your vulgar human-dysfuncted-organ variety of snake trouble but your slick-scaly-slip-along-the-ground assortment of it instead. He had a reptile in his crawlspace and he could hear it of an evening sliding and twining in among the floorbraces like did not somehow render him sufficiently curious to crawl on under thejoists himself and see what sort of snake precisely it was since they had between them plywood sheeting and oak flooring and gold speckledy pile carpet which, taken together, impressed Tiny Aaron as a fairly impenetrable snake blockade. His snake trouble had, however, recently undergone an alteration mostly on account of the snake, on account of the snake that is and the pipehole in combination that the snake, in the course of his travels roundabout the crawlspace, managed to discover. It wasn't any sizeable pipehole but was bigger by half than the ventpipe that went through it like wouldn't itself have been much of a problem truly if Tiny Aaron hadn't neglected to fit his ventpipe with a proper pipe collar and had decided instead to pack his pipehole with two pieces of the Greensboro Daily News from Sunday, November 12th, 1957, which had managed somehow to suit until they fell through the floor and into the crawlspace themselves which Tiny Aaron would probably have taken some notice of but for how his ventpipe and his ventpipe hole together were deep in the coatcloset behind his blue striped double-breasted suit that he hardly had cause anymore to extract and put on.

Consequently, then, Tiny Aaron's fairly impenetrable snake blockade had a manner of chink in it that his snake had the leisure to discover and so passed one evening tongue first out from the crawlspace entirely in among the closet floor clutter which was shoes somewhat and paper sacks and jackets and sweaters that had long since dropped off the hangers onto the floor. It was, in short, the variety of clutter to suit a snake that found he preferred the closet floor to the crawlspace and so took up residence around a tassel loafer where he did not show an inclination to stray much from until the one night he did in fact just up and stray. Of course Tiny Aaron had come to figure his snake had migrated since he could not any longer hear it twining among the floor braces, but he was of a disposition to figure it

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