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CHRISTINE SCH UTT<br >What Have You Been Doing?<br >What Are You Doing Now ?<br > She was out of practice, and he wanted practice, so<br >they started kissing one another, and they called it practicing,<br >this kissing that occurred to hitn. She obliged in the middle of<br >rooms, her bedroom, his bedroom, a kissing done standing,<br >her hands on his shoulders, his not quite on her waist, heads<br >tilted, mouths open. Like this? the boy asked, and the mother<br >said, Yes, but kept her tongue to herself, and only laughed<br >sometimes at the suddenness of his--his tongue that in its<br >darting seemed not his. The way he drew back to laugh and<br >to ask, Isn t that right? made her think he didn t like that part,<br >not quite, not the way she liked that part and how it was he<br >tasted--anytime he tasted of a warm sweet water, and of a<br >breath so clean she wondered how she must have tasted, so<br >that she shut her mouth to him and steered him by the shoul-<br >ders to his desk or to his bed and said, Okay, you know now.<br >She said, someday you will make a girl happy, and her saying<br >so made the boy smile, for this was something the boy wanted<br >m do--he was in training, she knew, in readiness for making<br >a girl happy.<br > tte said, I am going to have a maid when I grow up. They<br >were in the kitchen then, the boy and the mother, rinsing<br >dishes. I,ucky you, she said, and they went on rinsing dishes.<br > I am going to have three houses, the boy said. This was<br >later, another time. I don t know where, the boy said, but the<br >[)laces will be important. The mother was approving and asked<br >what she always asked, May I visit? lfdad is not there, the boy<br >answered, and later, another time--for these ideas, she found,<br >came to him as suddenly as kissing--he said, I will have houses<br >tbr you next to all of" my houses.<br > Sometimes the boy thought of dancing. He put on his<br >music and called out to the mother, Come dance, and she went<br >
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