Tuesday, March 10, 2009

XXX. Grandson of Just Playing

He shook his head slowly, trying to settle his thoughts. But he jarred one loose, a tumbling broken brick of a thought and it fell out of his mouth. "Got a cigarette," he asked me, but he didn't care about the answer. His head didn't stop shaking, and his eyes were smokey enough. A cigarette would be nice, but it was more than he'd come to expect.

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