The other day I heard Tom ask old man Pete,
"Whatever happen to that beautiful girl who always looked so neat? You know, the one who had pretty brown skin and the nice clean feet. She had a cute mole on her face and her lips were always painted peach. She wore pretty white blouses made out of expensive white lace and beautiful tight pants that always put a smile on the men's face."


"Boy, old man Johnny was sure sweet on her," and someone once told me, that he used to buy her diamonds and furs."

"Now, old man Johnny couldn't dance a lick, but whenever she came around, he always tried to do the splits. He would make it half-way down, but that was as far as he could go and someone always had to help him up off the blind-pig's floor. She would laugh and laugh and then clap her hands, and she would always tell him that she thought he was a 'brave man.'

"You do that better than some of the young men of the day - now how about you and I and our usual date?"

"Heated by the passion of love and the wonders of the night, they would hurry out the door and out of everyone's sight, but no matter how far she strayed and shook it in the night, old man Johnny knew, that she couldn't stay all night."

Pete scratched his head and thought and thought, but he kept drawing a blank for the woman they sought. Then like a bolt of lighting he jumped up from his seat,

"it was Fannie Mae Allen," he shouted, "the no-good bleak, bleak." He said, "Fannie was a beautiful woman this is true, but she was a no good b---h because she was married to Cal, a gentleman and a true blue. The last time I saw her she and Cal had divorced, and she was serving God as a Muslim and going to church. Fannie Mae was still beautiful as far as I could tell, but she had lost that whore look and that flirtatious tail. She looked hurt for a moment for how she used to live, but she also looked relieved that she was now doing God's will."



Thank you for reading my work!
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It's all amatuer writings, but I hope you like them.


Love and Peace!
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[Edited 5/7/07 22:32pm]