Rich folk don't try so hard

She's wearing a tight red sweater and a red skirt and enough makeup to scare a hooker.

What you learn today?" I ask even though she ain't in real school, just the pretend kind. Other day, when I ask her, she say, "Pilgrims. They came over and nothing would grow so they ate the Indians." Now knew them Pilgrims didn't eat no Indians. But that ain't the point.

I'm tired of the rules," I say.

It's already 95 degrees outside. Mississippi got the most unorganized weather in the nation.

President Kennedy’s assassination, less than two weeks ago, has struck the world dumb. It’s like no one wants to be the first to break the silence. Nothing seems important.

You is kind. You is smart. You is important.