Philip Nobel

Remainders, Miscellany and the Occasional Rant

Words Matter: Uptight Edition

Van Brunt Street, 9:00 last night

Large black Muslim woman approaches, talking to three little girls:

“…I don’t know, let me think…there must be a nicer word…”

Pauses outside my door. I catch her eye.

“Mister, help me out. What’s another word for anal?”