As the Donut Turns

CityFella,

My friend and I went to Colonial Donuts, a popular  late night donut shop near Lake Merritt in Oakland this was on a friday night.   The place was filled with people chatting, some brotha’s sitting in the windows were having this loud animated chess game going on..  A  homeless or street person came in and asked if anyone would buy him a croissant (ok-this is California) people ignored him.   There was a lot of  noise and loud chatter my friend and I had to lean into each other to talk.  The bars had just closed and the people coming in and out of the donut shop, increased 10 fold .  Suddenly the homeless man screamed “Somebody fuck me” AND for a few seconds……liquid froze in mid air, the chatter stopped…no one moved,  you could cut the thick silence. Finally one of the brothas playing chess…yelled ” man, you cant be saying that in here”  No one had any other responses…and yes, someone bought him a croissant.

Cityfella

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Moved to the Big Tomata in the nineties from San Francisco. No Suburbs for me with its single colored houses and lawns and the excitement of pulling out my trash can once a week. I'm a CityFella , a part time New Yorker. I'm happiest in the Center City where people the streets and people are alive. I'm still waiting to buy a 34th floor condo somewhere downtown/Midtown with a nightclub. "Hurry I'm old" My politics are somewhere in the middle with a needle that constantly moves. I'm too liberal to be a Republican and too conservative to be a Democrat. Everything interests me . I've come to love Sacratomato, Its a nice town in cheap sensible shoes .