Chapter Twenty- That of Poison and Roses
Busy.
Busy.
Busy.
Busy.
Busy.
Busy.
Dinner.
Dinner.
Dinner.
This.
This.
This.
Messy.
Messy.
Messy.
BONG. BONG. BONG. Three o'clock and all's well, I thought, peering out the front windshield of taxi 38, the black-and-yellow 2018 Toyota I've been carting New Yorkers around in every day for five years. Everybody knows me.
IZIMA
Be careful, Izima.
Looking in the mirror, I am awakening. Have I always needed so much makeup to conceal my eye bags? I am in a haze, and I am off to work, and it is too early in the morning.
Careful.
Careful.
Careful.
Red.
Red.
Red.
Patience.
Patience.
Patience.
Laughing.
Laughing.
Laughing.
Casimir Aldridge is laughing in my face.
Twelve
Poison.
Poison.
Poison.