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Gumbo
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Fresh
beignet in hand, Gumbo tore off a hunk, stuffed it into his craw and
turned to his friend Luke who’d gone with him to the zombie parade
on the California coast. “De fish bitin’?”
Luke
slurped his café au lait. “Non, pal.”
Gumbo
waved his bun at Luke’s fishing line seen through the wall-to-wall
view in the conference room of the oil platform’s topmost floor,
Tortuga Mines operations center. “What kind a lure you usin’?”
“Rattlin
chug bug.” Luke moved his hand like a fish. “Flees like bait.”
“Me,
I always like the soft ones. Man, ole mother sea teaches you
everyt’in you ought’a know. Ever seen dos anglerfish? Big mouth,
head stalk with de flashin light? Lures dem in, den scrunch. Yum.”
Luke
coughed. “I’m with de little fishies, trouble come, you all hide
out toget’er. Or camouflage. More likely to get de fille dat
way.” He grinned.
Gumbo
leaned back in his chair and rested his boots on the four conference
tables they’d shoved together for the confab. “I’se an
evolutionary kind a guy. Trouble comes, I’se top of de food chain,
human all de way. Out t’ink ‘em. Play possum like de
itty-bittiest little white cell. Call it my immune system defense,
just hangin’ out, doin my job. Some ole stranger makes it
t’rough my skin, why I just congregate. Then pow. We all swim in
and dine. Yum Yum.”
Luke
laughed. “Says you. But de Fed’s be comin’ soon. We’ll see
what dey says. Comprende?” |
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I
pull, stroke, pull, chanting a list of uninhabited islands to set
pace -- Blake, Bainbridge, around Port Madison. Sis mostly steers in
the kayak tied to mine, although often her paddle drags behind. Our
needs are few, packed inside each end, the kayaks our lifeboats in
an uncertain future. Days pass this way, waves crashing around us,
flat sea beyond on lucky days. Sometimes sun bakes my brain, other
times, I strain seawater with teeth. Salt cakes my face. Almost
makes me forget the day I cracked.
I
sound like some kind of junkie...
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appeared doll-like, sprawled against the hewn wall below. His love,
Elena Rose, was more carefully laid... |
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