Is God Is

Man, she ugly.

Did you see her face?

Ugly.

Ugly girl! ugly girl!

- -

Stop it! I'm gonna tell!

-You stop! -

Twins.

Them twins burnin'.

They been burnin'.

They had no say in it.

Just burn...

and burn.

They got their own ways.

Eat... sleep...

dream, all alone together.

-And burnin' all the while. -

[little girl giggles, distorted]

Them twins...

them burnin' twins...

always on the outside, lookin' in.

You dropped this.

If one finds trouble...

...the other can feel it and come runnin'.

-Thanks. Thank you. -Mm-hm.

Racine is the rough one

who still got some pretty to her.

Racine.

Looking like she looked,

Anaia don't get to be mean.

Racine does, though.

What you lookin' at, pretty girl?

Huh?

Huh?

She got both their mean.

Yeah, but he was always gonna fire us.

He a little bitch.

He a big bitch.

He a dick-in-the-negatives ass bitch.

He a breath-smell-like-shit-

took-a-shit- in-his-mouth ass bitch!

Ooh!

-Ooh! -Ooh!

Ooh!

Who's that from?

I don't know.

And suddenly, it's like

everything that's been missin'...

tryin' to make its way back.

Hey there, baby girls.

Mama.

Look at y'all.

Oh, shit.

We got a mama?

Yep. It say right here.

I thought they said she was dead in a fire.

Well, she ain't.

She live in the South?

Yep.

Way in the South?

Yep.

Twin?

Uh-uh.

-"Uh-uh" what? -I know what you gonna say.

Seems like we gotta go to where she at.

See, I knew you was gonna say something stupid.

How is that stupid?

'Cause she don't know us, and we don't know her.

She know our names.

She know how to find us. We gotta go see her.

And we ain't got no job. Ain't shit else to do.

Why she ain't come see us in all these years?

Only one way to find out.

-Let's go. -Now?

Right now 'cause she finna go.

Where she finna go?

Die.

Die?

-She gonna die? -Yep.

-Don't. -Do.

Don't.

Do.

You cried about that kitten

we couldn't get out the engine that one time.

Mm-hm. The one that died.

You cried, remember?

-All emotional. -Yeah!

I do be getting all emotional sometimes.

- -Like a lil punk.

Yeah, yeah. Ha ha.

Like a lil bitch.

Now you takin' it too far.

-Switch. -

But for real though, twin, we need to go.

I got stuff to do.

-I gotta meet up with Ellis. -Ellis who?

-Oh, him. -

We supposed to meet up.

Here we go again about that man she met online.

What you gotta meet up with him for?

We need to talk about the future.

Ain't you told me...

he don't like for you to look at him while y'all doing it.

I let him get it from behind.

If I look at him, I might start catching feelings.

I ain't trying to catch feelings.

Twin...

I ain't got men falling all over me like you, 'Cine.

Some of us gotta make do.

If we don't go now...

we might not get another chance.

Where Racine go, Anaia always gonna follow.

Ain't no choice but to...

Go meet her motherfucking destiny.

[hip-hop music continues playing]

Hey! Hey!

'Cine wonderin' if she look like her mama.

If maybe they got the same smile,

or laugh, or somethin'.

You look good. thanks.

-You think she gonna like it? -She gonna like it?

You ready?

To see God?

God?

She made us, didn't she?

You gonna get struck down.

Wait, my name ain't spelled right.

Good mornin'.

They good.

Those are my girls.

Don't mind the smoke.

It's for the pain.

Glad y'all could make it.

I had the nurse put that sign on the door.

We really like that sign.

I'm ugly, but I don't bite.

Come closer so I can feel y'all.

My girls.

How you been, Mama?

Oh, you know...

dyin'.

[Racine, Ruby, and female attendants laugh]

Yeah, yeah. I see that.

We work in an office.

'Naia got a boyfriend.

She got somethin' else too.

-Ma'am? -Nothin'.

She quiet.

Hi, Mama.

I ain't wrote you, 'Naia,

'cause you be gettin' all emotional.

Been that way since you was a little girl.

I ain't wanna upset you.

I wanted y'all to think I was dead.

Who want a mama...

that's burnt up to where she look like an alligator. Huh?

What happened?

- Child. - Mm-mm-mm-

mm-mm-mm-mm-mm.

Girl.

Well...

It was just a...

Regular day.

[whimsical cartoon song playing over tv]

I was just getting y'all food ready in the kitchen when...

And again.

Hm...

- -

i'm praying now.

I'm prayin', please, please be a branch against the window.

Even though I know

ain't no trees near our windows.

Hm.

Maybe it's the neighbor's dog.

Wasn't nothin' in there but a bone-tired woman.

He's just standing there.

Face as plain as a slice of wheat bread talkin' about...

"Hey."

Like he ain't just break into my bathroom.

Like it wasn't no restrainin' order.

Wasn't much to say.

I could have reminded him...

that he wasn't supposed

to be within 100 yards of this house...

or I was just fixing dinner.

Or...

I could let him touch me.

He do got a tender side.

You gotta understand.