If you don' know who Bobbie Louise Hawkins is, find out. In my world she is an iconic figure, one of my favorite writers since the first story I read of hers. And the last. Someone I read regularly. Here's the book to get if you want to see why she's so great: Selected Prose of Bobbie Louise Hawkins.
And here's a short piece from it that displays her skills, her insight into people, and her incredible control of narration and character, it's called: "It's A Phony"
It's a phony surface but who's to know the difference. Not enough time. All that flash.
Hey, it's as good as real. Like living a life.
"Who said that?" drawing back and centring. Let's show a little muscle here.
"You saying this ain't my life?"
Naw, I never said that.
"I know what's real. I feel it."
Yeah, we all do.
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