Gonna Lay Down My Burdens. Mary Monroe

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СКАЧАТЬ and a missing thumb and light skin, we all knew that Captain Hook had gotten more than a feel from Crazy Mimi. Like with her other pregnancies, she told her parents she didn’t know who made her pregnant. None of us ever told about the blue-eyed, one-thumb man at the train yard, because we didn’t want to stop going there.

      I didn’t know if it was because Burl was clumsy or still drunk, but I had to help him climb up into the boxcar. It was the one at the end of a row of four rust-orange-colored boxcars. The same one that Desiree and I had hopped into the week before to smoke cigarettes. It had been an awful experience for me. The smoke and the taste of tobacco made me sneeze, itch, and vomit. That was the first and last time I ever put a cigarette between my lips.

      As soon as Burl and I got situated on the dusty floor of the boxcar, Burl whipped out a Pepsi bottle from his inside jacket pocket, bit off the top with his thick teeth, and took a huge sip. Then he handed the bottle to me. As soon as I realized it was wine, I handed it back to him. He promptly finished it in one gulp and let out a belch that was so tremendous, his eyes rolled back in his head.

      I don’t know what made me mad the most: Burl acting like he was bored with my company, or him falling asleep on me again. But whatever it was, it was enough for me to tie his shoestrings together and leave him lying there on the boxcar floor, folded up in a knotty ball, clicking his teeth in his sleep. I leaped to the ground and with a lot of effort, I shut the heavy door to the boxcar. I stumbled like I was drunk, too, but I was able to steady myself long enough to keep from falling on the rails and knocking something inside me loose.

      On the side of a set of tracks connected to the ones where the boxcar was that Burl was in was a metal turnstile. I had seen the men who worked on the railroad turn it when they wanted a train to go in a different direction. I knew that the boxcar that Burl was in had been sitting in the same spot for weeks, but I twisted and wrestled with the turnstile until it shifted.

      I left the train yard running and laughing, trying to imagine the look on Burl’s face when he woke up in Mississippi.

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