{"id":12134,"date":"2010-06-02T22:10:22","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T05:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=12134"},"modified":"2010-06-26T07:43:43","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T14:43:43","slug":"mary-canary-on-her-way-to-feed-the-pigeons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/12134\/mary-canary-on-her-way-to-feed-the-pigeons\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Canary on her way to feed the pigeons"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie story<\/em><\/p>\n

“I married myself a quiet man. He told me so himself, many times. When he was drunk, he’d shout it to the world.”<\/p>\n

Mary Canary said that. She says stuff like that just to make sure no one’s listening. And no one on the bus was, no one except me.<\/p>\n

And Mary Canary is not her real name. It’s Maria Carnase, and I had to work on her quite a while to get that out of her. She’s not quite homeless, not quite penniless, not quite elderly and only mildly odorous. She’s bone thin and desiccated, and her flowered tent dress fit her like a tent. Her hair is not quite white and she wears it under a net. She had on cheap sneakers and compression hose bunched up at the ankles; seemingly, there was no flesh on her legs for the hose to compress. She has a bus pass and a mission. The bus pass is paid for by the taxpayers, but the mission is all her own.<\/p>\n

“I like the sound of a pedal steel guitar. It makes me think of a cat curling up for an ear-scratching.”<\/p>\n

A college girl with a black ponytail stared hard at her paperback book. An office geek whistled softly through his teeth and looked every which way except at Mary Canary.<\/p>\n

“When it gets too quiet, I can barely hear. I can’t hear myself sigh for the roar of the silence.”<\/p>\n

A very tall, very thin black man got up and walked to the front of the bus. He stood hanging from a pole as if he were about to get off, but he didn’t.<\/p>\n

“If I look behind my eyes, I can see the naked face of god.”<\/p>\n

A portly little man who had gained a pound or two since he’d bought his suit adjusted and adjusted and adjusted his necktie.<\/p>\n

And Mary Canary said, “I think you’re noticing me.” She said that to me, of course.<\/p>\n

“Yes, I am.”<\/p>\n

“You’re not supposed to do that.”<\/p>\n

“Why not?”<\/p>\n

“Nobody does.”<\/p>\n

I shook my head and smiled a gentle smile. “Everybody does. And you know it.”<\/p>\n

She shook her head, too, but it Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie story “I married myself a quiet man. He told me so himself, many times. When he was drunk, he’d shout it to the world.” Mary Canary said that. She says stuff like that just to make sure no one’s listening. And no one on the bus was, no one except me. 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