
Rebecca Gayle Howell (ed.)
et al.
Published online:
18 May 2023
Published in print:
07 March 2023
Online ISBN:
9780813197418
Print ISBN:
9780813182438
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Chapter
The Neighborhood Girls Ask Their Manager for a Raise
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Pages
169–170
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Published:March 2023
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Davis, Allison Pitinii, 'The Neighborhood Girls Ask Their Manager for a Raise', in Rebecca Gayle Howell, Ashley M. Jones, and Emily J. Jalloul (eds), What Things Cost: an anthology for the people (Lexington, KY , 2023; online edn, Kentucky Scholarship Online, 18 May 2023), https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813182438.003.0070, accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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—Dairy Queen in Youngstown, Ohio
We’re through the way our ponytailspoke through our visors. We’re too old for this,yet here we are, grovelinglike our daddies did. Raise your eyebrows,raise your questions: What of tips?What of payroll? What of under-the-counteracrobatics? Over-under,under-over—when a gym teacher blows a whistle,who winds up with the money,honey? We want the questionon the table. We want it bolted downall creature-feature: a living wagefor your living dead. Bet your bottom dollar, your B-moviemadness—your hickies-in-a-parked-Impala—and we’ll raise you your nostalgia. Jerkyour Cold Wars offthe big screen. Kiss you while the caris moving. Our blood—it isn’t ketchupbottles we refill by the hour. We want to talktomorrow morning before we headinto the bathroomto scrub another Saturday offour fangs. Ask the floss our canines’ curves, curvethis thought aroundyour head: if we could afford to quit,we would.
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