Wardine say her momma aint treat her right. Reginald he come round to my blacktop at my building where me and Delores
Epps jump double dutch and he say, Clenette, Wardine be down at my crib cry say her momma aint treat her right, and I go on
with Reginald to his building where he live at, and Wardine be sit deep far back in a closet in Reginald crib, and she be cry.
Reginald gone lift Wardine out the closet and me with him crying and I be rub on the wet all over Wardine face and Reginald be
so careful when he take off all her shirts she got on, tell Wardine to let me see. Wardine back all beat up and cut up. Big stripes of
cut all up and down Wardine back, pink stripes and around the stripes the skin like the skin on folks lips be like. Sick down in my
insides to look at it. Wardine be cry. Reginald say Wardine say her momma aint treat her right. Say her momma beat Wardine
with a hanger. Say Wardine momma man Roy Tony be want to lie down with Wardine. Be give Wardine candy and 5s. Be stand
in her way in Wardine face and he aint let her pass without he all the time touching her. Reginald say Wardine say Roy Tony at
night when Wardine momma at work he come in to the mattresses where Wardine and William and Shantell and Roy the baby
sleep at, and he stand there in the dark, high, and say quiet things at her, and breathe.