My New Black Magazine - NYU Black Renaissance Noire BRN-FALL-206 ISSUE RELEASE | Page 118

“I see. Well, it’s your yard,” he said,
turning to go to his own house.
Not two weeks after that conversation,
he dropped dead cutting his own front
yard. They said his heart gave out.
I felt my own heart racing as I sat on
the backdoor steps, which reminded
me of my primary concern my primary
concern these days, Prexylin. How
to market it? What were its properties?
Take one gold triangle and you can
go anywhere, indoors or outdoors, even
to outer space, and breathe easy.
No sneezing or coughing or runny nose.
Prexylin works before you know it, and
makes you feel like Tony the Tiger —
“grrrreat!! Yeah, but that makes you
think of frosted flakes, not an allergy
pill. How could I get that feeling into
the right language for my presentation?
Maybe I would use myself as an
example. I’d been taking prexies every
four to six hours for three weeks now,
and despite the cigarettes, my cough
had disappeared, and my breathing was
improved. The only side effect, if you
could call it that, was a tendency to
daydream, but maybe that was because
I was a traveling more and sleeping less.
“Okay,