cigarettes cost 7 dollars as of yesterday



So I met Joe for a late dinner with his African princess Kadeeja in tow. We went to a Mexican joint on 108 and amsterdam. I had two damn good pacificos and some sub par enchiladas. damn i hate east coast Mexican food. after dinner we walked around trying to find a bar with air conditioning and the fourth place we went to was some place i had never been in. we went to a fifth place before deciding on the fourth place. after about 10 minutes, we realized it was hot as fuck in there. 20 minutes later, we realized that it was a gay bar after we put two and five together: the bartender. the music. the clientele. the fact that no one was playing pool. and when we saw that the episode of "friends" playing on the TV was on videotape, that was the clincher. whatever.

It was hot. we wanted to play some pool but the bartender said he had no quarters. how gay. how gay. I went to the corner store to get some change and wanted to buy a 10 cent now & later with five bucks but was rejected. the next store i went to the guy had pity on me so i came back with some change and we played. I was hot, i was on fire. but soon i realized if i cleared the table we wouldn't be able to play anymore because of the quarter shortage so I started playing left-handed. we played some weird african version of billiards where joe would take a shot, I would take a shot, then kadeeja would take two shots while joe would teach her how to hold the cue, shoot the cue ball, and sink the balls. her head looks like a cue ball. she's bald. three times i wanted to ask joe why she didn't have any hair but I figured it was an african thing. she's pretty. it was damn hot and i was sweaty. some shy gay guy was watching us play, i suppose dancing to dancing queen wasn't his thing. by that time it was full blown flaming with dudes openly checking me out while voguing their hearts out.

After i sunk the 8 with an amazing mass�, joe used the remaining four balls to give kadeeja some pointers. it was really fun to watch them interact. although joe speaks some of the togolese dialect, they always speak in french. he would french it up to her and she would do a little dance after she sunk a shot. it took her a long ass time. she had a nice smile. when she finally sunk the last ball we all cheered and I gave her a high five. she's good at giving high fives.