Day One
IV. TOWN GOSSIP
7. Putting The Fire Out
In some ways it's still a racist town.
One day I saw drunks on the lawn
out the back of the Middle Hotel.
The publican woke the whites up
& nudged them off. Then a few men
got a big hose & hosed all the blacks
so that they rolled along the grass.
That's the way they put the fire out. |