Out The Gutter

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hared in an old building, admiring the Brownsville painting s

world. My

rown up there. I'd done everyt

utiful forty year old afro american lady. I stared

d at times and it hurt

er and a Cameroonian mother. She'd grown

by a friend of hers. He was Israelite. They immediately

married mom even with the

r their marria

er my birth, my father died in a ca

ything and they all returned t

her was still in great sadness

make my mother happy again. I was goin

out the window. I looked down and there stood on

t your ass down h

min

y old dirty converses, a white T-shirt and another shirt around my wai

Yasmin?" my mo

ring back some change

't do anyth

won

heek and left

hair into a bun and wore a grey pullov

we going?"

stroll around. We might fal

Manhattan

got m

know how we'l

town where we took the subway discretely. And so

treets while Yasmin and I, silen

an of about fifty years old. He had a briefcase in

he fat man."

s go

go ge

d the street and w

on, sir." we

od a little behind him while

e we're los

Where do

ly know how we ended

ly and discretely stretched out a hand and removed

to him, I looked

oth took off. Running

ntil he felt his pockets and disco

shouted helplessly. T

to three s

stopped to o

is this??" I a

ha

ey present in that wallet

!" Yasmin ask

with only ten dollars in his pants??" I

ddenly rea

e with fifty dollars each.

kno

ly scared. But not too much

Now let's

, when things got a little hard, I preferred to use a gun. No harm done. It

three more wallets after we'd explored othe

eally satisfied,

nto an empty street. It was already

d dangerous street, unawar

ought ourselves plastic clown masks for

nd approached the w

n front of her, blocking her way a

ed to turn and escape but Yasmi

somew

n began

! Take everything

ur purse! Now!"

he threw the

ly open

red doll

at her and motioned for

ing our masks and hiding our guns

afe, we stopped to rest a l

Haha

t was fun tho

ight, "Guess how much I got fro

w m

hundred

ogether we

or ourselves. The hundreds, w

ome Pringles and P

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aha me