'I ain't stole nothing of his.' He made a broad gesture with his arms to demonstrate his empty-handedness.

I say fuck you you fucking faggot give me a cigarette you fucking nigger and he tosses one at me. Its a fucking menthol. I say what the fuck is this a fucking niggerette?

The fountain plays.

I looked down to see my dog, Roof, short for Rufus, curled in sleep below the window, unworried by the wings of hummingbirds whirring at speeds of a gillion miles an hour as they flitted in and out of the trumpets of honeysuckle growing on the side of the house.