Personal Narrative: The Assassination Of My Wife

Kay is just as real about things as her husband. I encountered the indignation of Kay when she visited our ward when my wife was pregnant with Naomi, our oldest daughter. My wife had been ill that day and her complexion was yellow. My wife is dark brown; so, for her complexion to be yellow she was truly ill! I saw Afryka walking out of the cultural hall of the Smyrna building looking uncharacteristically destressed! “You look horrible,” I said. I did not mean she was ugly. I meant that she was sick and needed to go home and rest. I should have actually said that because my wife later told me it hurt her feelings. Apparently, Kay was in tune with my wife’s feelings because she attacked me with some venom. “I know you didn’t,” she said, “You don’t look all that hot yourself with those chipped teeth! How you gon see your wife and tell her she look horrible. You look horrible! She pregnant with your …show more content…
I think she was several months pregnant with her first son. Jermaine and I became louder and louder as she lay on the sofa in our house talking about whether or not spirits had internal organs. Yeah, we actually argued! Well, I argued, Jermaine just tried to reason. The conversation went similar to this:
“Johnson, come on man. You cannot know that spirits have organs,” he said smiling. I think he enjoyed the fact that I was squirming and reaching at the topic. He rarely called me by my first name either.
“Yes I do. I know that spirits have internal organs because Brigham Young said that our spirits look like our bodies.”
“Johnson, come on now. Just because the outside of the spirit looks like the mortal body doesn’t mean the insides do.”
“Jermaine, I know what I am talking about. The body is a copy of the spirit. When we get resurrected, we will have organs that look just like the perfect organs of our