Hey . . .  Hey . . .  Holloway. You know the Brass Rail down there by the courthouse? Man . . .  they got a barmaid down there you can stand up right next to Risa. She gonna wait on me till I come back. She down there now. I told her I’ll be back. She get off at seven o’clock. I left the courthouse, stopped down there and got me a few drinks. Hey . . .  hey . . .  Risa, fix me something to eat. Holloway . . .  I took that twenty dollars and threw it in the river . . .  right down there in the Monongahela River. . . . I went and stood on the Brady Street Bridge . . .  I didn’t just let it drop. I took and tied a rock around it and threw it . . .  just like Aunt Ester say. She told me if I do that everything be alright. And she was right too. She told me, “If you can’t fight the fire, don’t mess with it.” Only I’m ready to fight it now. Hey, West . . .  look here . . .  I went down there to the courthouse ready to fight for that twenty-five thousand dollars I want for my property. I wasn’t taking no fifteen. I wasn’t taking no twenty. I want twenty-five thousand. They told me, “Well, Mr. Lee . . .  we got a clause, and the city is prepared to put into motion”—that’s the part I like, “prepared to put into motion”—“the securing of your property at sixteen twenty-one Wylie Avenue”—they had the address right and everything—“for the sum of thirty-five thousand dollars.” I liked to fell over. The lawyer standing there, he know I’m mad and he ready to fight it. I told him, “Don’t you say a word. Don’t you open your mouth.” Thirty-five thousand dollars! I started to go up and tell my wife. She up there. She up there at the house. She come back to get her things and ended up staying. I moved out. She moved back in and I moved out. Told her I had something to do and if she be there when I get back—if I get back—then we can sit down and talk. You know what I’m gonna do? Aunt Ester clued me on this one. I went up there and told her my whole life story. She say, “If you drop the ball, you got to go back and pick it up. Ain’t no need in keeping running, cause if you get to the end zone it ain’t gonna be a touchdown.” She didn’t say it in them words but that’s what she meant. Told me . . .  “You got to go back and pick up the ball.” That’s what I’m gonna do. I’m going back to Jackson and see Stovall. If he ain’t there, then I’m gonna see his son. He enjoying his daddy’s benefits he got to carry his daddy’s weight. I’m going on back up to Jackson and pick up the ball.