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Miss Celia fidgets, looking more like a five-year-old than the rich lady paying my rent.

“Yeah,” I say and run my tongue up over my teeth because if that’s not an insult, I don’t know what is.

I’ve never met a white person worse off than me except for crazy Mister Wally, lives behind the Canton feed store and eats the cat food.

His claws are long, curled, witchy-looking.

forty-five things fall down on my head.

her tight Friday-night clothes on even though it’s Tuesday

you are heavy as a house, Minny.”

“Rule Number Six: you don’t hit on her children. White people like to do their own spanking.”

I just think, Get it over with, lady, so I can tell Leroy we got to move all the way to the North Pole next to Santy Claus where nobody’s heard Hilly’s lies about me.

Sugar Ditch is as low as you can go in Mississippi, maybe the whole United States.