<P> Jesse, a small southern town sheriff, and his wife, Grace, are laying in bed . Jesse reflects on his encounter with a young black boy earlier that day . The boy was a part of a protest outside of a court house, and as such, he was beaten by both Jesse and other police officers . "When will they learn?" he says to his wife . After recalling the violent encounter with the young black boy, Jesse becomes aroused and wants to have sex with his wife, but cannot seem to get an erection . He lies with his wife in bed, waiting the night out with his thoughts . A song from his childhood is stuck in his head . It was an old slave song he heard the night before witnessing the torture and burning of a black man . The execution was made into a spectacle that many of the town came to witness, including Jesse and his family . The scene was gruesome and violent . However, young Jesse was proud of witnessing it, believing it was some kind of a "test" of his father's . </P> <P> In the last paragraph of the work, Jesse's thoughts return to the present moment, and he now has found that he is aroused . He grabs his wife gently, and tells her that he is going to have sex with her as if he were a black man, intimating that he will have rough sex with her . In the last line, as he is having sex with his wife, Jesse hears a Rooster crow and the sound of tires on the gravel outside his house . </P> <Ul> <Li> Jesse, a deputy sheriff </Li> <Li> Grace, Jesse's wife </Li> <Li> Big Jim C (possibly a reference to Jim Crow as well as a reference to Alabama Sheriff Jim Clarke, who orchestrated violence against those participating in the Voting Rights march from Selma to Montgomery) </Li> <Li> Mrs. Julia Blossom </Li> <Li> Otis, Jesse's childhood black friend </Li> </Ul> <Li> Jesse, a deputy sheriff </Li>

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