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.He crossed his legsand checked the barber in the mirror as he cut.He supervised the cutting of each and every hair, having the barber lift a mirror to the backof his head every few minutes, making certain the back was absolutely straight across and not too short, checking the length of hissideburns, watching how he shaved around the ears and telling him to cut the tips of the few hairs that were sticking out on the left side justbehind the second wave.The chair was leveled and Abe was shaved, the barber working carefully so there wouldnt be any irritation ordanger of a slight rash, and Abe told him which way to go as he shaved the different parts of his face, telling him to be careful of thatpimple.When he was finished the barber wiped his face with a towel, not too hot but just the way Ol Abe liked it, then carefully rubbed inskin cream and a special after shave lotion.Then Abe had his mustache trimmed and the hair in his nose cut.He stepped out of the chairand looked at himself in the mirror, combing his hair and adjusting the waves, and flashed a couple of bills into the barbers hands.Hestayed for a while with the boys, listening to and singing along with the music, telling the boys about the fine chicks hes got after him and thecool brown-skinned chick that was givin him the eye last night and how he dumped some big mothafucka on his ass a few weeks ago inMELS, and ah mean he was big Jim, and he had a blade that long, but ah laid one onim and pow, he went down jus lake that, and showedthem his fist and smiled and they all laughed and he waved again as he sauntered out the door.Yeah, they all liked Ol Abe.He looked athis watch, but it was still too early to pick up the Cadillac.Itll takem a few more hours to do a good job.Too bad, cause this was thekindda day you lake to take a ride and just cruise around and dig the music on the radio and maybe pick somethin up.Too bad that chickwasnt around now.They could go for a little drive.yeah, man, a little drive, hehehe.well, maybe we do a little drivin tonight.Hesnapped his fingers, sheeeit.He stopped outside the movie and studied the signs advertising the movies being shown.Two cowboypictures were playing so Ol Abe decided hed kill the afternoon in the movie and sheeit, he always did dig cowboy pictures and when he gotout the Cadillac would be ready.* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *THE PLAYGROUNDMost of the kids were out now, running around, knocking or being knocked down, depending upon their size.Some picked up a few bagsof garbage that were lying around the halls and started a fire, running around it yelling, picking up pieces of burning garbage and throwing itat each other until a few doors opened and they were told ta get the fuck outta there ya little mothafuckas and they kicked the fire aroundthe hall, yelled fuck you, and ran down the stairs, screaming, and out of the building.Others put strips of paper in the mail boxes with mail,then lit the paper and jumped up and down gleefully as the mail burned and the flames blackened the wall.When all the mail had beenburned they rang as many bells as they could reach then ran screaming from the building [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]