Catfish by Madelyn Bennett Edwards

Author:Madelyn Bennett Edwards [Bennett Edwards, Madelyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Coming of age, romance, race relations, Jim Crow, 1960’s, KKK, LSU, Southern University, Sarah Lawrence, Louisiana, Cajun
Publisher: Madelyn Bennett Edwards
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

August 19, 1967

Dear Susie.

I saw you today for the first time in almost nine months. You are more beautiful than ever and I’m more in love with you than ever. We can do this on your terms.

We can be friends and have coffee while we listen to beatniks recite poetry and play bongos.

I can pretend to be your servant from the plantation. I’ll carry your bags and call you, “Miss Susie.”

I’ll be your student, you can tutor me, call me illiterate, unfortunate, pitiful.

I’ll be the yardman at your dorm and you can tell me to cut certain flowers, to trim the hedges, to mow the lawn.

I’ll walk your dog, feed your cat, change the water for your goldfish. I’ll do or be whatever you’ll let me; just let me—Be, that is. Be in your life. In any role that works for you.

This is my address at Southern University. I’ll be there August 30th

Please say there will be a letter waiting for me when I arrive.

I miss you.

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