Tuesday, 10 December 2019

It Didn't Shine


        There were windows in the kitchenette apartments, but all from the top to the bottom floor had folding iron grilles which were closed and locked at that time of night and dark shades were drawn on all but three. The apartment house had a vertical row of small black openings one above the other at the rear. They might have been bathroom windows but no light showed in any of them and the glass was so dirty in didn't shine.
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       And then i thought of some of our loudmouthed leaders urging our vulnerable soul brothers on to getting themselves killed, and thought further that all unorganized violence is like a blind man with a pistol.

excerpts from
Chester Himes
Blind Man with a Pistol
1969
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Bernice Abbott
                        https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/359265.Blind_Man_with_a_Pistol

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