Abdul decided to fast in front of a Karim's

Abdul decided to fast in front of a Karim's Kebab stand. It proved to be quite a test for both of them. Abdul called out "Devil do not tempt me with your succulent goat meat!"

Karim ignored Abdul but smiled scornfully facing opposite to Abdul. He was an atheist and disapproved the concept of fasting. He took upon the challenge to

stuff Abdul's face with Hyphen Jabbar's famous suckling pig. Karim knocked out Abdul with the luau's cinder block table supports and pried his mouth open with hooks. "Here comes

the rain again falling on my head like a memory falling on my head like a new emotion I want to walk in the open wind" sung Karim as he looked lovingly I want to dive into your oce

an" and Karim starting really getting into it, with all kinds of pelvic thrusts and sneers into the imaginary camera. His audience was surprisingly uninterested. Mostly, they just

wanted him to get the damn ball in the basket and start pulling down those rebounds. Forget the kid behind the coach's bench with the fake camera, for cryin' out loud! Karim

Abdul Jabar didn't flick a hot carrot with a poker! Captain Sky Hook kept hitting points all over us, until that kid behind the coach's bench had enough. Shaking with anger, he rev

Ealed that Squawker, like AJ, was getting up there in age and who knows how many more clutches of eggs he could lay with Nona, who had already produced 150 eyases. These three now

were something else. It was as clear as the face on his head to him that they were really something else. Nona could not see it and she accused Squawkers of ennui & left the bed.

Squawkers lay there a long time, watching the daylight build upon the bedroom wall and wondering if he would ever learn to just shut the hell up and let things be.