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“Have you always been Christ then?”
J C saas sincere and chewed so on a co to dress up, always at ease When I look down at s, ine any other life Oh, years ago, of course, I was curious” He chewed another bite “Tried everything Went to the Reverend Violet Greener on Crenshaw Boulevard The Agabeg Temple?”
“I been there!”
“Great showmen, eh? Séances, tambourines Never took Been to Norvell He still around?”
“Sure! With his big blinky cow eyes and his pretty boyfriends begging cash in tambourines?”
“You sound like y? Holy Rollers? That’s fun”
“Been to Holy Rollers, also”
“Like their ues?”
“Yeah! But how about the Negro Baptist Church, Central Avenue? Hall Johnson choir jus Sundays Earthquakes!”
“Hell, boy, you dog my steps! How come you been all those places?”
“Wanted answers!”
“You read the Talmud? Koran?”
“They came too late in my life”
“Let me tell you what really came late—”
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