The Return of Buddy Bush (2006)
“The cups.
The plates.
The stove.
The floors.
Lord, they just wiping.
Ma is crying.
She need to clean the mirrors, too. Grandma covered every mirror in the house last week when Grandpa died. They were covered all week until we got home from the funeral. Grandma took all the covers off except the one in my back bedroom where my cousin, Collie, been sleeping. I guess she will uncover that mirror tonight. Covering the mirrors is a part of dying on Rehobeth Road. That’s what the colored folks do aro...und here. They believe it’s bad luck to look at yourself when somebody dies. Uncle Buddy said that ain’t so. But Uncle Buddy also said that he don’t have to move off the sidewalk for the white folks and look where that got him with his hardheaded self.
Let me tell you how hardheaded Uncle Buddy really is. Ma said after his folks died and Grandma and Grandpa took him in he would sit in the kitchen every day and watch Grandma cook. One day when he was about my age, he said the stove did not look hot enough to cook the biscuits.MoreLess
The plates.
The stove.
The floors.
Lord, they just wiping.
Ma is crying.
She need to clean the mirrors, too. Grandma covered every mirror in the house last week when Grandpa died. They were covered all week until we got home from the funeral. Grandma took all the covers off except the one in my back bedroom where my cousin, Collie, been sleeping. I guess she will uncover that mirror tonight. Covering the mirrors is a part of dying on Rehobeth Road. That’s what the colored folks do aro...und here. They believe it’s bad luck to look at yourself when somebody dies. Uncle Buddy said that ain’t so. But Uncle Buddy also said that he don’t have to move off the sidewalk for the white folks and look where that got him with his hardheaded self.
Let me tell you how hardheaded Uncle Buddy really is. Ma said after his folks died and Grandma and Grandpa took him in he would sit in the kitchen every day and watch Grandma cook. One day when he was about my age, he said the stove did not look hot enough to cook the biscuits.MoreLess
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