Status Updates From The Crossing

“He’d no boots for they’d long been stolen and those first days he walked barefoot and his heart was filled with despair. More than filled. Despair was in him like a lodger. Like a parasite that had turned out his very being from its abode and taken up the shape of that space within him where it once had been.”

She don’t know no English, does she?

Hell no. How would she speak english?

Don’t be cussin in front of her.

What?

I said don’t be cussin in front of her.

You just now got done sayin she don’t speak no English.

That don’t make it not cussin.