我,茉莉,迈克尔三个人正在汤普森先生的游泳池旁闲逛。我们都是十五岁,这是开学后的第一个周末,我和茉莉肩挨肩地坐在汤普森先生割成绿白相间的草坪中的一把椅子上,互相弄着对方的指甲。这时,收音机里正在播放《我对世界》。说唱艺术家图帕克被枪杀之后的那天,就连热调频97音乐台数月都没有在西海岸播放这首歌曲,也没有播放图帕克的其他歌曲。茉莉一个劲儿地说迈克尔身上闻起 Three of us, Jasmine and Michael, hang out by Mr. Thompson’s swimming pool. We were both fifteen years old, and this was the first weekend after school, and I sat next to Jasmine on a chair in Mr. Thompson cut into green and white lawns, nailed each other’s nails. At this moment, “I am the world” is playing on the radio. The day after the rapper Tupac was shot, even the hot FM 97 did not play the song on the West Coast for months, nor did it play other songs from Tupac. Jasmine said angrily to Michael