another alcoholic Sunday 

                           pro football Jack shots sipping black coffee  until plying beers at High Noon Coop never had it this good

donuts with the coffee

Sunday donuts 

                 only during the football season donuts didnt exist outside it unless he had to take his car in for work or an oil changehave his tires rotated

happily he was rotated far more frequently than his tires

 

a Cambodian woman owned the donut shop

she and her husband ran it and when their daughter and son were old enough they helped

Fon

when her children were babies she and her husband escaped the terror of Cambodia Vietnam they were boat people 

he saw the bodies televised on the six o’clock news when boats sank or overturned  overcrowded   people desperate to save themselves

Fon made it to America

they were grateful to live in America make a living running a donut shop  become citizens

he was born in America

what had he done 

he tipped more than the dozen or two dozen donuts depending he bought on Sunday morning for football Jack black coffee  

he was a sucker for Fons Bavarian custardfilled chocolatefrosted Bismark her powdersugared lemonfilled Bismark her plain buttermilk donut her plain blueberry donut

he had all day to eat them and everyone knew to stay clear of them on pain and punishment of his hands

nobody wanted to piss off a man whod been drunk since morning 

although he was always sober in Fons presence 

                                                 respecting what he would never dare ask her respecting her immigration her courage   and remembering keenly his Born in America entitlement 

                                                                             which he didnt take for granted  Ever

 

1144,  Sunday,  4  10. 20

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