Our car was a tin can on wheels,
and we lived in the middle of
nowhere. We had threadbare
furniture, busted old sofas with
holes worn through the fabric. Our
TV was a tiny black-and-white with
a bunny aerial on top. We changed
the channels using a pair of pliers
because the buttons didn’t work.
Most of the time you had to squint
to see what was going on.
We always wore secondhand
clothes, from Goodwill stores or
that were giveaways from white
people at church. All the other kids
at school got brands, Nike and
Adidas. I never got brands. One