Do not trifle, she tells me, with cruel men.
Take Joe, he had said. Leave Michael with me.
He didn’t say nothing when I held him. He didn’t even say thank you.
I don’t think you was meant to be a girl, he told me.
I hadn’t known whores did that. I thought I invented it that night.
I didn’t know where I was going but I knew I hadn’t never been there before.
He can spot a ruined woman woman like anyone else.
It was the most we had said to each other that wasn’t to do with fighting or laying.
He got frustrated and said, Sophie, you got no scratch of common sense.
Margaux thinks we got all our lives predetermined by God, I said.
