Rose:Red and Black

The year was 1937 i had just turned 27 i was laid off from my job at the gates and son store and had took on a job working as a server on a train one daya young woman had came aboard she was a white women dressed in all black with hair as red as rihannas or probably lucille balles eyes blue as water in the spring and a voice that would make the birds sing she was know simply as rose she had a mole just abover her lips but blelow her nose she look my waybut i quickly turned away i didnt want to arouse the attention of the kkk or the ku klux klan theyd enjoy lynching a black man watching em hang like a tangerine late at night in the deep south where no other colored man was in sight or never be seen all beacuse i gazed upon a white woman,aint that shit mean?She came up close and asked for a glass of tea with a side of toast with some small glass of sugar honey iced tea she leaned in close and gave me a kiss i said miss rosa now you knows what they gones do to me and she put her finger over my lips just leave it between u and me she stayed on the train fora while and we traded stories she was heading north to try to make it in broadway starring in the play my fair lady..to be continued #rose:red & black