Hoodlum Page #4

fricassee it, hang it out to dry,

it's still just as funky

as a fat man's drawers.

Here, take this.

- Don't you see people hungry, huh?

What do you do for people, numbers man?

- Francine, I have told you several times,

I'm the poor man's race track.

- You take the money out of pockets

and you put food on the table.

A million-to-one odds, it's a scam.

It's gambling, that's what it is.

- Excuse me.

I believe the numbers provide jobs

for over 2,000 colored folks

right here in Harlem alone.

A penny gets you six dollars, that's what,

a month worth of groceries?

- That's right, a month

worth of people food,

not this bullshit here.

- It's the only homegrown business we got.

- Are you his partner?

- Don't worry about it.

- Y'all make a better

team than Amos and Andy.

- I don't need no partner.

My name is Bumpy Johnson.

- Bumpy?

Your mama named you Bumpy?

- That's all right, what you gonna do

with all that pretty

ham in hot-ass African,

you ain't got no straightening

curls over there, ugly.

Damn, she fine as frog eggs.

- Okay, cousin, tell me

about Miss Francine Hughes.

- Oh, Francine.

She's always quoting Marcus Garvey

about moving back to hot-ass Africa.

I think she works down

at that United Negro

something-or-other.

- Improvement Association?

- That's it.

- Man, she sure is high tolling,

you see the glimmers on that girl?

Where do you think she

got them eyes, cousin?

- Francine Hughes is not going to take up

with the likes of you.

She high-powered and

she got a boot's lace.

Don't even pay that no nevermind.

- All I want to do is converse with her.

- Mm-hm, yeah, I bet you want

to have a long-ass conversation.

Son, the man that walks with Francine

will walk down the Christian path.

Oh, hey, damn!

All these roaches in here.

I've been stepping on corn flakes.

- Well, at least you

won't be sleeping alone.

- Hey, Bumpy, you know,

these last couple of

years, here, with you gone,

I just want to say, I really

missed you, that's all.

- I missed you, too.

- Got you a little present.

Now, it's not new.

Got it from old Clarence up on Saint Nick.

- Hello, there, Mr. Speaker.

- Yeah, figured you might need that

to open a few doors for yourself.

- Yeah.

That's hard-hitting, thanks, cousin.

- Together, we got strength,

we got experience.

Most of all, though, we got organization.

A partnership's going

to increase the profits.

- There will be no profits

with your boys collecting the money.

- What do I got, I got f***ing horns

growing out of my head here?

I don't feel nothing.

Man, I'm stiffy, I'm not

the f***ing devil here.

- But you do the devil's work.

Six of my men is proof of that.

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