A friend called you by the name of her black housekeeper several times. A cough launches another memory into your consciousness. It shows the back of a stop sign with a street sign on top labeled 'Jim Crow Rd'.īack in the memory, you are remembering the sounds that the body makes, especially in the mouth. A picture appears on the next page interrupting Rankine's poem, something that the reader will get used to as the text progresses. Sister Evelyn does not know about this cheating arrangement.
You are in Catholic school and a girl who you can't remember is looking over your shoulder as you take a test. In this memory, a secondary memory is evoked, but this time it is the author's memory. Rankine begins the first section by asking the reader to recall a time of utter listlessness.
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