Remembering, and misremembering, a killing in cold blood
The first thing I killed with intention was a house gecko. I was four years old then. I had trapped it in a plastic bowl and I’m not sure how to explain the way I had killed it except to describe how cats sometimes kill their prey —I played with it to death. I hadn’t beheld death before but as soon as its jaw slackened, I knew it had passed. I presented the dead gecko to my disappointed mother. “That is a sin you do there, killing that thing for no reason,” was all she said.
The following day, the men are back on their metal chairs, palms resting on their bellies, laughing for one reason or another. Boxes being offloaded from trucks. Passengers and crocus market bags shuffling in and out of maxi-taxis. A man cat-calls to an unseen woman, “Family! Family!” The Play Whe booth is open for business. People talk about going to that particular booth to lay down 20 dollars on the number four.
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