Bastard For Jamaica Kincaids Girl

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This is how you cut sheetrock; this is how you use a screwdriver; this is how you avoid a

conversation with your women; this is how you fold your clothes, and put them away; is it true
that you started a fight at the family party?; this is how you change a tire; this is how you don’t
blow a transmission; this is how you cut away from yourself; this is how you keep going after
you get hurt, so no one will think you're a puny boy; this is how you speak when you’re spoken
to; this is how you don’t show tears, you’re not a girl; this is how you check the oil on the car;
this is how you buffer a car; this is how you run away from hard things; this is how you make a
dog listen; this is how you make a child listen; you’re not allowed at family parties anymore; this
is how you make a fence, this is how you break an arm; this is how you take a hit; this is how
you hit harder, to make sure you’re not becoming the puny boy you so desperately want to be;
this is how you hold things for a girl; this is how you make breakfast; this is how you eat fast; this
is how you escape cops; this is how you leave the house; this is how you enter the house; this
is how you show respect to those in charge; but I didn’t start that fight; this is how you lace a
shoe; this is how you hold a gun; this how you shoot a gun; this is how you clean a gun upside
down; this is how you know your place in a room; this is how you carry someone elses weight,
so they don’t realize the puny boy who is in front of them; this is how you shingle a roof; this is
how you cut down a tree; this is how you start a lawn mower; always listen to a anothers story
with absence of emotion in you; but what if it’s really sad?; you mean to tell me that after all this
you will be the kind of man that can’t hold in emotions?

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