I just changed out of a tuxedo from working a banquet at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Mayor Gavin Newsom was having a fundraiser. Ra’s ship was sinking into the pacific. On the hostel’s rooftop, the San Francisco sky looked like bleeding watercolors. Up came Black. “Damn, you summoned the blunt, my nigga,” he said, holding a long cigar full of the Bay’s medicinal heritage. We passed the blunt back and forth then he told me his story. …
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Publish Date Tracy Jones
On Minna Street near midnight…“Like blouw, dare you go dawgs,” Black said, passing me a blunt. He was posting outside when I got there.“Get that head right dun, get that head right.”Black was a Puerto Rican albino with golden eyes. He’s from East New York.“…know what I’m sayin. They used to dump bodies in my neighborhood all the time,” he said. “Yo I was suppose to go somewhere way way beyond San Francisco, but I ended up here. Ran out …
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