Thursday January 15th, 2004
Alex came over this morning with a black eye. Hah. Apparently I’m not the only one who wants to belt him. He wouldn’t really tell me much about why, but someone hauled off and belted him. I’ll post the photo I took of him. It is not flattering.
Kira, the boy that George is essentially raising, wandered over today. It is a bit surprising that I haven’t seen him in a few days. He usually is over all the time when George is out of town. Apparently he has been a bit sick. Anyway, he smelled of piss. He had peed on himself, and had been wearing the same clothes for a while. I washed him, and payed some attention to him. The neighbors where he stays when George leaves, are heavy heavy drinkers. They are also constantly having trouble. They are also the patriarchal familly in town (the grandfather’s name is.. Lomié). Anyway, they were very happy to let us take care of cleaning Kira. What bad news. I can only imagine what is going to happen to that boy when George leaves.
Athough, funny thing happened as we were discussing it when a girl came over to visit Jen. She had a bag. A simple plastic bag with school books or food, or whatever. Kira’s first instinct was to reach for her bag and ask what was in it, and could he have some. She wasn’t interested, and pretty much ignored him. He kept at it for a minute, and then gave up. I started talking about how much of a trouble maker Kira was (‘cause he is bigtime), and I wondered what the future was going to be like for him. A minute later Alex strolled up, and went through almost the exact same gestures and questions. We started laughing. Tragically, Alex is the model… which is a shame, because Kira is a good kid, and smart as well.