Words Can Never Say

ART: "Supermarket" by Jabob Lawrence

/I saw your girlfriend in the
Rite Aid the other day...
When she saw me, she was
getting ready to turn and
walk the other way...
I stopped and put my hand upon
her shoulder...
She couldn't have given me a look
that was any less colder.
I asked her if she'd seen you and if
you were doing well..
She gave me a look and then said
"Go to hell.."
I said "Wait a minute, I really, really
need to know...People can change,
people can grow.."
She looked at me with a little bit of
sympathy..
and I thought I saw a bit of empathy../


/ She said that you found a new job
new apartment and bought a new car..
Said you were living kinda large .....
but hadn't moved too far...
She said that you were dating a few guys
but nothing too seriously...
and that you'd be better off not hearing from me.../

/but what does she know
about what we had?
what can she know about our good times
and our bad?
I know that you probably told her a lot of things
but there are some things that words can never say...
things like how once upon a time
we felt a certain way.../

/ I smiled and bid your girlfriend goodbye...
I started to dial your number on my cell phone,
but thought better of it...
I don't know why...
I happened to get a glance at you the other day...
I started to walk over to you and say something,
but then I just smiled and walked the other way./

/ Your girlfriend told me that you were livin
kinda large..
but hadn't moved too far..
Seeing a few guys
but nothing too seriously... and that you'd be better off ...
if you didn't hear anything about me and
the way we used to be../

/ but what does she know
about what we had?
what can she possibly know about our good times and our bad?
I know you probably told her a lot of things..
but there are some things that words can never say...
things like how once upon a time we felt a certain way..../

Everybody Thought It Was Funny

/Everybody thought it was funny

when I told them that I might

love you...

Everybody laughed until theycried ..

they told me that I didn't have a chance in hell...

Everybody thought it was funny

when they saw me talking to you.

Nobody thought that a guy like me

would have the nerve to even try...

they all shrugged their shoulders

and said -"Oh well.."

Nobody thought that a girl like

you would actually care about me..

Everybody thought that I must be a

fool....

Everybody thought it was funny....

Everybody except you./

/Everybody thought it was funny

when they found out that you

and I were actually dating....

They laughed in disbelief

at the thought of us actually mating...

Everybody is scratching their heads

in amazement at what they weren't

anticipating...

The so called experts now predict

with certainty that you're just playing...

Everybody thought it was so funny...

Said that I was a fool....

but girl we showed them...

Everybody thought it was funny...

Everybody but you./

Wang Dang Doodle (Conclusion)

ART: "Sisters" by Ernie Barnes

"Clerow...you know this woman?" said a very frightened Cora Beth..


'Well uh, yeah,kinda sorta.." said Clerow...


"Tell her Clerow..tell her how you know me in the biblical sense....hmmmph..from the looks of you Cora Beth, I guess he know you too ,in the biblical sense." Victoria laughed maniacally as she held the gun on them both -

"Damn Clerow...how many womens hearts you done broke...you is just a playa ,playa.." laughed
Cora Beth, equally frightened and equally amused at their predicament....She would never admit it , but she was secretlty turned on ..thinking that Clerow had brought this kind of passion out in

a woman...She wanted to ravish him on the spot.

Clerow for his part was terrified.

"Victoria, look...we done it that one time,
it's not like I was your man or nothin..."


"Oh shut up...this aint about you...this
is about me and huh and huh sister." snapped Victoria.


Cora Beth looked amazed-


"You know my sister? What did Mabel
do to you ?" she asked.

"You both took away my daddy." said Victoria.

"Lady,I don't even know you " said Cora Beth


"No, You don't, but you will...." snarled Vanessa.

Suddenly another click was heard...and it was Victoria's turn to feel some steel on her head.


"Drop that gun Heiffer or you can cancel Christmas."
said Mabel, with her .38 snub nosed revolver trained
on Victoria's head.

Mabel looked in disgust and then snarled-
"What is it with you people and not lockin doors?"


Clerow for his part,looked relieved..boy was he glad to see Mabel....Now it was his turn to be turned on...He had never wanted Mabel more than he wanted her right now.. Boy was she hot.

In that tight ,blue dress, holding that 38.snubnose smokeless...Black bra strap just barely showing on her shoulder...

Somethin bout a woman with a gun... and a tight dress...


Victoria smiled-


"Well ,Mabel Jenkins...We finnally meet....

You wanna take that gun offa me honey..
I might get nervous..shoot Clerow in his nuts...
or shoot your little sister right between the eyes..."

"Lawd jesus..." sighed Clerow.
Just then came another voice coming from down the hall-

"Victoria honey....it's me...John...I got
to talk to you..." said John Struthers

"Why you cheatin bastard.." snapped Victoria..

She turned from Clerow and Cora Beth and fired two rounds over his head....

"Sweet Jesusssssss..." said John Struthers as he turned and tried to
run...She fired another round and ran and ducked behind the couch....that loose round hit him in his right butt cheek...

'WHoooooaaaaaaaaaaa lawwwwddddddddd, ah been shot again....
woman you crazyy...you crazzy..." screamed the Pastor as he hit
the floor...




Deacon Weatherford attempted to help him up...This gave Mabel all the time she needed to
fire a nice well placed round into Victoria's arm and drop her where she stood...

"Agggggghhhhhh, crazy bitch...I'm your sister...."

"My What?" said Mabel

"Our what?" asked Cora Beth

Then another voice rang out-
"That's right girls...it's all true" It was Sweet Dick Jenkins...

Victoria fired one more shot...It hit Sweet Dick in his thigh, close to but not quite at his prize
possession.....He let out a yell-

"Whooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Nellllllyy......ohhhhhhh lawwwwd, you crazy
girl....Mabel...shoot her again...she done shot her father....Whoaaaa
nellly...awwwww lawwwwwd..it hurt...it...hurts....ohhhhhhhhh sweet jeeesussss..."

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Police sirens rang out in the early morning...An ambulance had come to the scene first....
Mabel, Cora Beth and their Father, Sweet Dick Jenkins sat in bandages next to the gurney where a bandaged Victoria lay, holding her arm...

"So we all sisters huh?" said Cora Beth.

"Yeah..I never told you girls about Victoria and her mother....I had
run off and I was ashamed of what I had done...By the time I met your
mama...I was a changed man...Don't make what I did right, but it was
what happened...When I found out that all of you girls was up here in
Philly , I knew that this might end up bad...and so I come up here to
keep just this kind of thing from happening. Oh by the way,Is the Pastor going to be
alright?" said Sweet Dick Jenkins...
Clerow and Deacon Weatherford were trying their best to restrain the Pastor who was raging mad and talking to any of the EMT guys who would listen.

"And I believe that the bitch shot me the first time...
I come here to make up with huh and that sleazy crazy woman done shot me again...I want a divorce...
I wish Johnny Cochran was livin....Lawd Jesus...keep
me near the cross... lawwwddd have mercy, lawd have mercy on mah soullll."

Mabel, Cora Beth, Victoria and Sweet Dick looked at each other and laughed until they cried.
It was a good healing laugh.

Wang Dang Doodle

ART: "The Rock Congregation" by Ernie Barnes

Clerow stepped out into the early morning air...He so loved to watch the sunrise and walk through the city streets in the morning, right before the rush hour traffic began to run down the

boulevard. He would usually buy himself a big hot steaming cup of coffee , a couple of muffins..
(He liked Blueberry, Cora Beth liked Banana Nut) and a newspaper...He had to check in and see what the Eagles or The Phillies had done the day before. This morning would be different.
Just as he stepped out of his apartment complex, he heard the click and felt the cold steel of the muzzle in the back of his head....His eyes grew as large as saucers...He thought he was being stuck up until he heard the familiar voice.

'Well hello Mr. Clerow...what's the matter, no hug, no kiss, no hi ,how ya doing?"

"Victoria...uh...how ya doin...would ya mind taken that
gun offa me?"

"Let's go inside." she purred

"Uh look Victoria...ah...ah got company...."

"I know you do...I want to meet her...now let's go."

And a few blocks away at the home of Mabel Jenkins...Mabel and her man have just finished making sweet love and are laying in each others arms ,cuddling, laughing..like lovers do...

"Damn Mabel, you ought to bottle up
whatever it is you do to me and sell it.." he said.

"Oh shut up" she laughed..."Anyway, we got to get up
and get washed up...we are supposed to have breakfast
at Clerow and Cora Beth's today..."

"Oh yeah that's right.."

"Toss me my cell phone...I gotta call Cora Beth.."

"Here, uh...here, take it.."

"Funny thing"

"What?"

"I know they there...but aint nobody answering..."

"Maybe they in to somethin....you know, like we jus
was...heh...heh..heh..and we can be in again ,while we
waitin.."

"Nah, Cora Beth is showin ...she won't let Clerow touch
her now....Somethin is up...I don't like this..Aint like them
not to answer neither phone.."

While they pondered that....Another man was getting out of the hospital.. Reverend Brother
Doctor Pastor Jenkins....He walked with a limp,but other than that, he was no worse for the wear. Deacon Leroy Weatherford waited for him as he came out and headed for his car. A Silver
Chrysler 300.

"Deacon."

"Yes Pastor"

"While I was laid up in that hospital, do you know
what I was thinkin?"

"No Pastor"

"I was thinkin bout Victoria"

"Uh, you was Pastor??"

"Lawd Jesus, nobody can suck a dick like that girl..."

"Ah knows it's the truth Pastor."

"What?"

"Oh I'm just agreein wit you Pastor..."

"Ah been wrong to her Larry...Ah been runnin
round on her damn near since I brung her up here
from Louisiana and da Lawd tole me in a dream ah had that ah got to go find huh and make things right... you do know where she is Larry, now don ya?"

"Pastor?"

"Take me to her...I got to make it right."

"Yes Pastor."

And finnally at 30th Street Station, the man known as "Sweet Dick" Jenkins bounded off of the train and took in the sights of the big city he was in. He hadn't been here in years...Since he'd
been a young man ...Now here he was ,in search of his daughters...
Oh ...The chickens had come home to roost..

(To be continued....)

Remedy

/Let me tell you a secret
promise to cross your heart
and keep it..
Love is right around the corner..
Hey listen,
do something for yourself...
Put your ear to my chest
and hear my heart beating...
and know that it beats loudest for you.../

"Check this out-"

/ You see girl,
it's cold outside...
but I've got a warm bed inside
and a remedy to make you happy...
do something good for yourself..
you don't have to tell anyone else..
but I think I've got the remedy
to make you happy.../

/ So can I help you?
Please
give me a chance to-
remedy the lonlinesss
that you're feeling inside...
so mean on the outside
so needy on the inside...
I might have what you need...
if you stop trying to hide../

"Now put in a quarter in your meter and park right here-"

/ Why should a girl like you
,who is so fine...
waste your time, if all you
want to be is just a friend of mine?
You need a lover and not just a friend..
someone who can rescue you from the bad state
of forced celibacy you've been in..
and I would...
girl..I surely would...
if only I could.../

/because it's gonna get cold outside..
I've got a big warm bed inside..
and it's no fun sleeping alone...
do something good for yourself..
as well as "somebody else"
It would be so nice if the two of

us were horizontally prone../

/ So please let me help you...
because lady I aspire to
take away all of that pain
that you say you feel inside..
if you let me I'll try to..
do something nice too..
rid you of that pain.....
and bitterness, you try so hard to hide../

/ Lady I know for sure...
that I've got the cure...
the remedy for what is ailing you...
it's cold outside..
there's a warm bed inside...
and I'm sure it's the remedy for
what's really ailing you../

Victoria's Secrets

Victoria Struthers was a woman who had many secrets.

"Ohhhh GODDDDDDD!!!!!!:" she moaned...

For one thing, few people in the city of Philadelphia knew where she'd actually come from.

"Gooood lawwwdddd, ouuuuuuu, ohhhhhhh...Larrry....ohhhhhhh!!!"

All they knew was that Reverend Brother Doctor Pastor John Struthers had been on a revival tour of the south and had come back with a young and beautiful wife, twenty years younger than himself. She had lived a hard life in Shreveport. When he father had left her mother, it had been all they could do to survive. She worked hard to get out of high school. She did two years in college before calling it quits and coming back home. When the lecherous old fistlicking Preacher from up North showed an interest in her ...she used all of her womanly charms to hook him and after a whirlwind courtship..they were married and she left for Philaelphia and a better life.

"Oh good lawwwwwwd...ohhhhhhhhhhhhh you hittin mah spottttt,ouuu."

Deacon Larry Weatherford was a simple man.....not very ambitious and not very smart..but he was well endowed and very good at pleasing a woman in the bedroom...She had been giving him pleasure for close to six years....It began 10 years into her marriage to Pastor Struthers...She had been a good wife to Pastor Struthers and he in turn had given her a car, a nice house in a much nicer area of the city than the one his parishioners lived in.. but ...and there is always a but in my stories! Everybody in the church knew that Pastor Struthers had a wandering eye and a zipper that was quick to come down. He loved the ladies and the ladies loved him. Over the years, he had sampled every woman on the choir..and some twice. She kept quiet and tried to turn her head the other way until she heard him talking a little too much about a woman named
Mabel...Mabel Jenkins!!! a woman who had just moved up here from Monroe, Louisiana!!! Was it
a co-incidence?? Monroe was where the Detective had told her that her Daddy had run off to and married a woman named Corretta Dorset!. This woman had bore him two daughters...Mabel and Cora Beth...Could these be...her half sisters?? She didn't know at first and in fact she even saw this Mabel Jenkins...didn't see the resemblance....but it was the younger one...Cora Beth...they could have been twins....so funny that she didn't know until the Deacon got
that information for her....Mabel and Cora Beth were her half sisters..Her blood....and they had to know..

"Ohhhhh Deacon.....Deacon....ohhhhhhhhhh..." she moaned as the Deacon plowed into her and began to shake....
"Yasssssss.....YASSSSSSSSS.....make mah funk da P FUNK...Ah wants to get
ohhhhhhhhhhh...funked up.......YASSSSSSSS..thas what olddddd Deacon is
talkin bout...ouuuuuuuuu...here it commmeee...."

She simultaneously reached her orgasmic peak not long afterwords.........

"OHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....LARRRRRRRRYYYYY!!!!!!!"

It was the only time she ever called his name...Usually she was calling him stupid or pervert or an old lecherous so and so....but when he was doing his thing in the bedroom..he had her complete respect... If only he weren't so stupid...He would have made a halfway decent boyfriend.

Epilouge: Baton Rouge ,Louisiana

He rolled over and sat on the edge of the bed...He pulled a bottle of water out of the small refrigerator and began to drink...He was naked and sweating profusely. The woman laying next to him in bed softly rubbed his back....

"My...My...My...I see why they call you "Sweet Dick " Jenkins....
why you like to wore a sister out..."

He barely smiled...He looked as if he were far away. The woman sat up and sat next to him.

"What's the matter bay?" she asked.

"I'm going up north tomorrow...To Philadelphia."

"Yeah? Why so far?"

"Long time ago, I created a big mess....I never thought my
mess would come together..but now it has...Ah got three
daughters and they all up in Philly...I just feel like I gotta
straighten what could be a bad situation out, you know."

"Well you do what you gotta do Willie and then you come on
back down here to Baton Rouge and do what you do to mama.
Mama gon be waitin."

"Ah know you will." He laughed ruefully.