BLACK BART
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“REN, yeah, JUST Ren, no middle name, NO last, JUST REN”
He was 25 years old, sitting in a sleazy bar called the Halfway, fly speck windows, filthy glasses, where the waitress spent more smoking her Winston’s and looking at herself in her pocket mirror then waiting on the customers. He didn’t blame her, most of those customers were low life’s, people just like himself who had no ties to the great city of San Francisco, a sprawling metropolis of 775,000 people and still growing.
“Yeah, I was born on Powell Street, in the hotel; my dad I never met cuz he died in WW1, my momma gave me up and signed the birth certificate REN”
He pushed his glass forward and watched the meaty hand of the owner / bartenders fill it, his nickel quickly palmed and a halfhearted wipe of the counter with an even greasier rag then the counter was. His eyes lifted to the fly specked mirror behind the wall of bottles, his own image of a young man with tanned dark skin and shoulder length black hair staring back at him with cold blue eyes.
“Give me a shot and run a tab”
He had to work the docks in the early morning but didn’t care about getting drunk, hoping the binge would for at least one night stop the dreams he was having, distorted flashes of people set in a time he had never lived, the face of one woman reoccurring in all of them, her hands and lips all over his body, bringing him to the brink and then disappearing in a dark mist as he woke, his chest heaving and well-muscled body sweating and begging for more…
“Make it a double, will ya?”
He rose from the bar and moved to the single redeeming feature within the foul smelling dive, a brand new juke box that played 5 selections for a quarter, the amount seeming ridiculous, but when Ren considered the cheap swill he was drinking and could barely get a buzz he laughed, then dug in his pocket to find the coin. He fed the silver to the slot, punched in randomly the letters and numbers that caught his eye, and as the first song began to fill the room took a chair and turned his broad shouldered back on the room.
How had he gotten to this point, he reflected, his future had once seemed bright when he joined the service and fought in the “big one”, and unlike many of his comrades had come home to a hero’s welcome, alive and in one piece to a ticker tape parade. It was from that point it went downhill, his mother dead and in a paupers grave 2 years, his girl gone as well, choosing a more “stable” man that had avoided the draft, and he lived in the memories left behind in the old apartment his mother once occupied.
“Please Mister please, don’t play B17, it was his song, it was our song but now it’s ovvvvver”
The music wept on, a woman’s voice begging a man not to play a love, her voice unfamiliar to Ren, but the pain within calling to him as he tossed the shot back and washed it down with the stale, flat beer… Rens sole intention to drink himself past the state of remembering anything and picking a fight with the biggest, loudest bully in the room….
"Barkeep... bring the bottle"
San Francisco, 1950's... a city brimming with people of all colors and creeds, a time when war and blod shed wanted to be forgotten, a feeling of both prosperity and desparation existing within a city that sat alongside the dark waters of the ocean.... What wallked above the ground was human, what walked among them only LOOKED to be human... a race mankind read about in books and laughed at as fairy tales, a creature, like the Devil, that wasn't forgotten, but had convinced humanity that they didn't exist......
He was 25 years old, sitting in a sleazy bar called the Halfway, fly speck windows, filthy glasses, where the waitress spent more smoking her Winston’s and looking at herself in her pocket mirror then waiting on the customers. He didn’t blame her, most of those customers were low life’s, people just like himself who had no ties to the great city of San Francisco, a sprawling metropolis of 775,000 people and still growing.
“Yeah, I was born on Powell Street, in the hotel; my dad I never met cuz he died in WW1, my momma gave me up and signed the birth certificate REN”
He pushed his glass forward and watched the meaty hand of the owner / bartenders fill it, his nickel quickly palmed and a halfhearted wipe of the counter with an even greasier rag then the counter was. His eyes lifted to the fly specked mirror behind the wall of bottles, his own image of a young man with tanned dark skin and shoulder length black hair staring back at him with cold blue eyes.
“Give me a shot and run a tab”
He had to work the docks in the early morning but didn’t care about getting drunk, hoping the binge would for at least one night stop the dreams he was having, distorted flashes of people set in a time he had never lived, the face of one woman reoccurring in all of them, her hands and lips all over his body, bringing him to the brink and then disappearing in a dark mist as he woke, his chest heaving and well-muscled body sweating and begging for more…
“Make it a double, will ya?”
He rose from the bar and moved to the single redeeming feature within the foul smelling dive, a brand new juke box that played 5 selections for a quarter, the amount seeming ridiculous, but when Ren considered the cheap swill he was drinking and could barely get a buzz he laughed, then dug in his pocket to find the coin. He fed the silver to the slot, punched in randomly the letters and numbers that caught his eye, and as the first song began to fill the room took a chair and turned his broad shouldered back on the room.
How had he gotten to this point, he reflected, his future had once seemed bright when he joined the service and fought in the “big one”, and unlike many of his comrades had come home to a hero’s welcome, alive and in one piece to a ticker tape parade. It was from that point it went downhill, his mother dead and in a paupers grave 2 years, his girl gone as well, choosing a more “stable” man that had avoided the draft, and he lived in the memories left behind in the old apartment his mother once occupied.
“Please Mister please, don’t play B17, it was his song, it was our song but now it’s ovvvvver”
The music wept on, a woman’s voice begging a man not to play a love, her voice unfamiliar to Ren, but the pain within calling to him as he tossed the shot back and washed it down with the stale, flat beer… Rens sole intention to drink himself past the state of remembering anything and picking a fight with the biggest, loudest bully in the room….
"Barkeep... bring the bottle"
San Francisco, 1950's... a city brimming with people of all colors and creeds, a time when war and blod shed wanted to be forgotten, a feeling of both prosperity and desparation existing within a city that sat alongside the dark waters of the ocean.... What wallked above the ground was human, what walked among them only LOOKED to be human... a race mankind read about in books and laughed at as fairy tales, a creature, like the Devil, that wasn't forgotten, but had convinced humanity that they didn't exist......
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