Red Hook Summer Page #5

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(lNHALER PUFFlNG)

Why you playing?

-My hair's all messed up.

-Hey, boy!

Turn that goddamn thing off!

You can't be railing and rooting

round here crazy with this girl.

See, you've done made her sick!

You know Chazz got that goddamn asthma.

SlLAS:
l didn't make her sick!

Deacon Zee, l'm okay.

Boy, did you just fall off the turnip truck?

No.

There's 31 of these project buildings,

and an EMS brother told me on the low-low

that 1 1 children died of asthma

in the last two years.

Know why?

Why?

'Cause of a light bulb.

See, a child has an asthma attack at night,

somebody calls 91 1

and the EMS guys spend 1 5 minutes

spinning around the projects

trying to find the address.

Because they can't see it.

And by the time they find it,

the poor child is dead.

You wanna take a picture of dead things,

then you in the right place.

Welcome to the big leagues.

SlLAS:
I don't wanna be here.

l wanna go home.

You just got here.

Come here.

Take a look out there.

Look at everything God made for you.

That tree.

That bird.

Sister Sweet.

(CALLlNG BlRDS)

She feeds those birds every day

before she goes to work.

Pushes herself to the subway.

Now, that's 1 5 blocks.

Mother Darling,

out there preaching the gospel every day.

Her gospel,

but any word is better than none.

Both their sons died ofAlDS.

And look at them.

Still doing God's work.

Now that's inspiration, son.

Red Hook is a window to the world.

A window to God's inspiration.

You can't find no better place to see it

on this God's Earth.

That's not what Deacon Zee said.

Well, Deacon Zee is confused.

(PLAYlNG A LITTLE TALK WITH JESUS

ON ORGAN)

(SlNGlNG) A IittIe taIk with Jesus

makes it right

All right

A little talk with Jesus makes it right

All right

Troubles of ev'ry kind

Thank God l'll always find

That little talk with Jesus makes it right

My brothers, l remember

When l was a sinner lost

l cried, "Have mercy, Jesus"

But still my soul was tossed

Till l heard King Jesus say

"Come here, l am the way"

And a little talk with Jesus makes it right

A little talk with Jesus makes it right

All right

Troubles of ev'ry kind

Thank God l'll always find

That little talk with Jesus makes it right

A little talk with Jesus makes it right

All right

Talking about troubles of ev'ry kind

Thank God l'll always find

That little talk with Jesus

Makes it right, all right

ENOCH:
Hallelujah.

Thank you, Jesus.

Hallelujah.

WOMAN:
Amen! Thank you, Jesus. (WHOOPS)

Oh, l'm standing here

with an attitude of love.

ALL:
Yeah!

l'm standing here with

an attitude of gratefulness.

ALL:
Amen!

Oh, thank God.

ALL:
Thank God!

-l thank God for the rain.

-ALL:
Yes!

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