LUCY
 


Lucy walked me to school and returned to the house, then, in the afternoon, walked back to school to accompany me home again.....we lived "up the hill" from the valley in which the school was......i admired her so much, but knew nothing of her life away from our home, where she labored, ironing our clothes, monitoring my activities and cleaning our toilets and tubs.......i listened to her music in the afternoons.....a mix of highly emotional gospel music and blues.......so different from the sounds that wafted about our home........it seemed to come from another world where she must have lived when away from me.......she liked to watch Liberace, so i watched it with her, in the afternoons as we enjoyed iced tea together.......Liberace was from another world too!