The Knitting Circle Rapist Annihilation Squad by Derrick Jensen & Stephanie McMillan

Author:Derrick Jensen & Stephanie McMillan [Jensen, Derrick & McMillan, Stephanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Feminism
ISBN: 9781604865967
Publisher: PM Press
Published: 2012-10-05T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 7

Jasmine and Suzie are at Jasmine’s great-grandmother’s nursing home. It is the weekly Roller Derby Day, so they’ve brought bandages.

Great-grandmother Ahn didn’t get off too bad this time: a couple of bruises on her arm and a bump on her forehead, “where that nasty piece of business Robin Banks hit me with a folding chair when I was about to lap her.”

Jasmine gasps, “You need to get a new roommate, Grandma. That’s too much.”

Grandma Ahn says, “She’s a nasty piece of business, all right. But all the other inmates are worse.”

Jasmine and Suzie attend to her wounds, watch video highlights of that afternoon’s game, compliment Grandma Ahn on her ability to fend off blockers with her walker, and jeer at Ms. Bank’s perfidy. The three of them note with glee that Ms. Banks was sent off to do penalty time for the incident with the chair.

After that Grandma Ahn gives them a play-by-play of yesterday’s bingo games, including detailed descriptions of the increasingly disgusted looks on Ms. Banks’s face each time Grandma Ahn shouted Bingo just as Ms. Banks was taking in her breath to do the same. Grandma Ahn lowers her voice: “I think that’s why she hit me with a chair.” She covers her mouth and giggles.

Suddenly she stops giggling and asks without preamble, “Did you bring me any doughnut holes?”

Suzie says, “Of course,” and begins rummaging in her backpack.

Grandma Ahn hisses, “Hurry. Get them to me before she gets back. If she sees them she’ll want some, and if I don’t give her any she’ll take them as soon as I leave the room.”

Suzie finds them and hands them over.

Grandma Ahn pops a couple in her mouth, then carries the bag to her bed, where she lifts a corner of the mattress, slides the treasure beneath, and lets the mattress fall back down. She returns to her chair and asks, again without preamble, “You have a boyfriend?”

Jasmine opens her mouth to speak.

Before she can answer, Grandma Ahn asks, gently, “Girlfriend?”

Jasmine inhales so she can say something.

But before she gets the words out, her great-grandmother says, “Makes no matter to me what you prefer, so long as the other person’s not a nasty piece of business. That’s what I told your grandmother and that’s what I told your mother, and that’s what I’ll tell you, too, right now. Better to be alone than that.”

Jasmine says, with meaning, “I’ve found someone very special.”

“You have?” Suzie says.

“I told you about him.”

“Who?”

“The One.”

“Which one?”

Grandma Ahn asks, “What are you girls talking about?”

“The one I met at the Xanadu.”

Suzie asks, “Months ago? The one with the text message?”

Grandma Ahn asks, “What’s a Zandoo? And what’s a sex message?”

“Text, Grandma. Text,” Jasmine says.

Grandma Ahn continues, “Not that I have anything against sex, but when I was young we could send messages other ways, too.”

Jasmine says, flustered, “We’re not having sex, Grandma.”

Her great-grandmother looks at her a moment, then asks, sincerely, “Why not? Life’s a one-way trip and you’re not young for very long.

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