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Numbers, Get Ghost!, Lights Up, Train Stop

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You dreamed yo’ mama died last night—but she been dead for over five years? Damn! sorry about your loss, but that must mean I should quit playin’ “bullshit” this month and switch to playin the dead huh? Let’s see 50 cent straight, and a dolla box—Let me go hit my man up on the phone so I can play my numbers before he gets busy at 5 o’clock. Thanks a lot hear? When I was growin’ up, long before the lottery, runnin’ numbers was a big part of our neighborhood economy.

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Weems, M.E. (2015). Numbers, Get Ghost!, Lights Up, Train Stop. In: Blackeyed. Social Fictions Series. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-917-3_6

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