a mom started to explain. "IT BLEW UP." A kid told.
"How could it? I have the Contract right here." The man fumbled with a leather sports bag on the front seat. Threw it over the seat as the woman sighed and asked, "Did you put the lid back on the Orange Juice?"
"Somebody really told you it was a Timeshare?" Another kid looking through a box of lace and embroidery put with the trash near the curb asked.
"Guess we've been duped." The woman got a sad face but the tears stayed in her eyes as she bit her lip. "Is there a phone around here?"
"Downtown." Yet another kid declared.
"Given to drink?" A gentle girl of a lady asked of a brother-in-law who wouldn't come out of the jukejoint. Three ears of corn were half ground in a blender. A shotglass being tapped on the bartop brought a girl bartender not a barwench over with dug up antique bottles on a tray. More shotglasses placed in groups of five by sausage fingers in each one. Smelling each liquid. A serving cart wheeled behind the seated on barstools. A truck's oil pan and a skeletal engine mounted atop. A woman with a child clinging to each leg and a bandana covering rainwater washed hair. "Gimme the matches."
"Comes another one!" The groan of a jet plane could just barely be heard. "Get MOM! GET A MOM!" A shake of the crusty black soot from garbage bag rain shelter. Sneaker tracks in the quarter inch of soot covering the sidewalk. "She's belching hard," the loudspeaker on the tank reported. Lower and lower, the jet inked a dirty sky meaner. "See any flames?" A man asked a woman with a blackened face and fleshwhite rings around her eyes. "Not on that one. Engines in flames was," clearing black powder dust from a tally sheet with symbols, "FOUR incoming ago."
"Is that right son?" The toehead blonde boy had gray hair that day and black in the gaps between his teeth. "Here, suck on this," the woman pushed a wetted papertowel at the kid. "And answer the man." A clear space around lips showed a little grin. He nodded emphatically. "Correct, Sir."
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