芒果街上的小屋-24

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Meme Ortiz
    Around the back is a yard, mostly dirt,and a greasy bunch of boards that used to be a garage. but what you families of squirrels in the higher branches. All around, the nighborhood of roofs, black-tarred and A-framed, and in their gutters, the balls that never came back down to earth. Down at the base of the tree, the dog with two names barks into the empty air, and there at the end of the block, looking smaller still, our house with its feet tucked under like a cat.
    This is the tree we chose for the First Annual Tarzan Jumping Contest. Meme won. And borke both arms.
           
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    屋后面是個(gè)院子,大部分地方是泥土地面,還有一扎油膩膩的模板,是過(guò)去的車(chē)庫(kù)。不過(guò),你記得最清的應(yīng)該是那棵樹(shù),巨大,枝干肥碩,高高的枝椏上棲息著繁盛的松鼠家族。從上面張望,周?chē)际青徖锏奈蓓?,A字形,澆了黑色的瀝青。上面的天溝里,躺著一些永遠(yuǎn)不再著地的皮球。樹(shù)底下,那條有兩個(gè)名字的狗在沖著空氣狂吠。街區(qū)的盡頭是我的家,看上去更小了,像只貓兒縮起腳爪窩在那里。
    這棵樹(shù)被我們挑來(lái)舉行第一屆年度人猿泰山跳躍比賽。么么贏了??墒?條胳膊都摔破了。