"Kerouac, Jack - Pic" - читать интересную книгу автора (Kerouac Jack)

school the afternoon after it and seed nobody
would ever know where I come from, if what they
called it was North Carolina. It didn't feel like no
North Carolina to me. They said I was the darkest,
blackest boy ever come to that school. I always
knowed that, cause I seen white boys come by my
house, and I seed pink boys, and I seed blue boys,
and I seed green boys, and I seed orange boys,
then black, but never seed one so black as me.
Well, I gave this no never mind, and 'joyed my-
self and made some purty pies when I was awful
little till I seed it rully did smell awful bad; and all
that, and grandpa a-grinnin from the porch, and
smokin his old green pipe. One day two white boys
came by seed me and said I was verily black as
nigger chiles go. Well, I said that I knowed that in-
deedy. They said they seed I was too small for
what they was about, which I now forget, and I
said it was a mighty fine frog peekin from his hand.
HE said it was no frog, but a TOAD, and said
TOAD like to make me jump a hunnerd miles
high. he said it so plain and loud, and they ske-
daddled over the hill back of my arandpa's prop-
erty. So I knew they was a North Carolina, and
they was a toad, and I dreamed of it 'at night.
On the crossroads Mr. Dunaston let me and old
hound dog sit on the steps of his store ever' blessed
evenin and I heard the purty singin on the radio
just as plain, and just as good, and learned me two,
th'ee, seben songs and sing them. Here come Mr.
Otis one time in his big old au-to, bought me two
bottles Dr. Pepper, en I took one home to
grandpa: he said Mr. Otis was a mighty fine man
and he knowed his pappy and his pappy's pappy
clear back a hunnerd years, and they was good
folks. Well, I knowed that: and we 'greed, and
agreed Dr. Pepper allus did make a spankin' good
fizzle for folkses' moufs. Y'all can tell how I 'joyed
myself then.
Well here's all where it was laid out. My grand-
pa's house, it was all lean-down and 'bout to
break, made of sawed planks sawed when they was
new from the woods and here they was all wore
out like poor dead stumplewood and heavin out in
the middle. The roof was like to slip offen its
hinges and fall on my grandpa's head. He make it
no mind and set there, rockin. The inside of the
house was clean like a ear of old dry corn, and jess
as crinkly and dead and good for me barefoot as
y'all seed if you tried it. Grandpa and me sleep in