Quick outline sketch needs
theme and maybe new ending
My mother tells me
It’s important to know about
Yourself/-
She says my Great Grandmother:
“Raised my father-
She was in her late 80s.
Almost 90,
Raising a 5 year old boy-
She’d sell
Homemade liquor
Made from fruit.
She sell it to the winos.
She’d keep getting arrested
Told on by her
Neighbors
Every couple weeks
No fine,
Just a warning,
To never do it again-
But she’d
Get taken in regularly for
Bootlegging
Yand selling it cheaper
than the
Cantinas-
{your great grandmother was a businesswoman
that way}
Tilll one day my father, your Grandfather had enough…
And declared himself ,
The Man of the house!
At age of 5.
He put together his
Own shoe shine box.
And
In what would be in today’s currency-
Would be about a nickels
Worth of brown and black
Shinolla-
Your uncles would call me
That to bully me but I got my
Licks in to-
You better believe…
At five he put together his own box.
His own kit.
A military man,
Asked him:
“What do you charge”
Your Grandfather responded
“What ever be your will”
“Aren’t you too young
to be hustling on the streets”
Your Grandfather responded
“I’m the Man of the House!”
The military man like his answer
And
Would bring him his eight pairs of
Boots.
He wouldn’t pay him the standard
Rate
But
take pity
On an old woman
And a 5 year old orphan.
His grandmother was a business woman
Buying the Toosa from the indigenous
Women
In the spring when they came down from the
Mountains.
(Needs weight and anchor before last vignette}
One time his Grandmother was talking
To another old lady
And she says
I hate to leave you with
The words stuck to n your mouth-
{note it sounds cooler in Spanish let’s see if I can get
The slang right and if it needs a rework}
“But I gotta attend the man of the House”
Her friend looking at her
Like your so old
Who would
Court you
Who would give you
The time of day.
{don’t be obvious here with the reveal, be clever and see if we can repeat a top line to bring in the landing}
Your grandfather would be
tell me these stories with pride-
{needs bridge to conclusion}
My grandfather’s blood runs through my viens
So
Does my Great Great Grandmother
