The staked Goat by Healy Jeremiah

Author:Healy, Jeremiah [Healy, Jeremiah]
Language: deu
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

”Y’know, ya coulda been dead by now.”

I pulled the handkerchief away, and inspected the bloodstain. I licked a reasonably clean corner of the cloth and began dabbing.

”I appreciate your stopping.”

The cabbie, beefy, bald, and fiftyish, glanced up at me in his inside rear mirror. ”You’re just lucky those three wasn’t good at this yet. No knives. If they’d had knives, they woulda used ‘em, and a fuckin’ medical convention couldn’t a helped you then.”

”You’re probably right,” I said, looking down at the holes in the knees of my pants.

”You bet I am. I spotted those kids. Maybe an hour ago. They was hangin’ around the edge of the retail strip. I knew they was lookin’ for a mark, but the fuckin’ cops can’t do nothing. Used to be the cops would arrest the fuckers or at least roust them. Now, not only won’t the arrest hold up, but the fuckin’ Soo-preem Court’ll let the kids sue the cops. For civil rights violations. You figure it out.”

”I can’t help you there,” I said. My cheek hurt, my chin and knees burned, and my lower back and thigh ached. Worst of all, the adrenaline had sobered me up.

”Ya sure ya don’t wanna go to the hospital?” asked the cabbie.

”I’m sure, but thanks.”

”Hey, citizens gotta stick together. Ya know, lotsa guys, cabbies I mean, woulda seen you get jumped and turned right around. Mebbe two or three I know woulda radioed the dispatcher to send the cops, but that’s it. Me, I think you gotta help. It’s no good to complain about things if you don’t, y’know. Then we’re like animals.” He pulled into the Marriott Key Bridge’s drop-off area and a doorman, just inside the door, reluctantly put down a magazine and started out toward us.

”Animals,” continued the cabbie. ”Just like those fuckin’ kids that jumped you.”

I handed him a twenty. ”Thanks, my friend.”

”Thanks, buddy,” replied the cabbie.

I turned, waved off the blinking doorman, and limped into the hotel lobby.

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