across the river. A Nigra hangs from a cotton wood
in front of The Old Court House . . . whimpering
women catch his sperm in vaginal teeth. . . . ( Husband
looks at the little changeling with narrow eyes the color of a faded grey flannel shirt. . . . ‘Doc, I suspect it to be a Nigra.’
The Doctor shrugs: ‘It’s the Old Army Game, son.
Pea under the shell . . . Now you see it now you don’t. . . .’)
“And Doc Parker in the back room in his drugstore
shooting horse heroin three grains a jolt—‘Tonic,’ he
mutters. ‘It’s always Spring.’
“ ‘Hands’ Benson Town Pervert has took up a querencia in the school privy ( Querencia is bullfight term. . . .
The bull will find a spot in the ring he likes and stay
there and the bullfighter has to go in and meet the bull
on his bull terms or coax him out—one or the other).
Sheriff A.Q. ‘Flat’ Larsen say ‘Some way we gotta lure
him outa that querencia.’ . . . And Old Ma Lottie sleep
ten years with a dead daughter and home cured too,
wakes shivering in the East Texas dawn . . . vultures
out over the black swamp water and cypress stumps. . . .
“And now gentlemen—I trust there are no transvestites present— he he—and you are all gentlemen bv act
of Congress it being only remain to establish you male
humans, positively no Transitionals in either direction
will be allowed in this decent hall. Gentlemen, present
short arms. Now you have all been briefed on the importance of keeping your weapons well lubricated and
ready for any action flank or rear guard.”
Students: “Hear! Hear!” They wearily unbutton their
flies. One of them brandishes a huge erection.