PIERA
PIE-RA not PERAH
Waste from trashing rice from stalks.
Rice stacks correct.
What does PIERA has to do with Classis Clay/Sonny Liston fight in the early 60s ?
On our way home from school near Guava Bush bridge, on Nigg post office dam.
The Muslim barber had a wooden corral for his cows, covered with PIERA.
As kids we were rally in tuned with the Classius Clay/Sonny Liston fight and imitate it during recess.
On the way home after school, I was supposed to pretend to fight me late friend Moti [who died in Schenectady NY] in the PIERA covered corral.
I was Classius Clay, he was Sonny Liston and I was supposed to knock him out, during our pretend fight.
Things got a bit out of hand and when I knocked him out over the wooden rails. The boys standing around the corral watching, held on to his hands and we took off his clothes.
Motie got really mad by this time and he ran home naked.
Since I was his best friend and was in the corral with him, every looked at me to take his clothes home, but I was scared of his Ma.
Walking to his house with his clothes in my hands, I noticed his mother standing by their gate with a stick in her hand. Now I am really scared.
I stood still for a while surveying the situation, how am I going to do this without any licks.
So I ran up to his fence, throw the clothes over and shouted
'AUNTY, MOTIE FEGET HE CLOTHES AT SCHOOL'
and me took off home.
It was months before I would visit him again at his house.
A true story.
Motie dad's gun that we borrowed to shoot birds, shot me accidently on my left elbow and that is not a PIERA story.