He sewed his thumb back on in the woods<\/p>\n
with some fishing line<\/p>\n
I have broken my arm twice<\/p>\n
and each time I sucked in a lot of air and teared up<\/p>\n
waiting in a clean hospital ER for a bed<\/p>\n
going like this:<\/p>\n
oooh-ahhhh-ooooh-ahhhh<\/p>\n
and been a bitch otherwise my entire life<\/p>\n
when he tells me about them boys at work<\/p>\n
running the machines into the ground<\/p>\n
I go along with him<\/p>\n
and say, you can’t find anybody worth a durn<\/p>\n
and he agrees with a grunt<\/p>\n
then tells me about being shot at by union men<\/p>\n
that wanted the job he and his father took<\/p>\n
because it was their state<\/p>\n
and his father almost ran them over with a truck<\/p>\n
and he tells me that he once went<\/p>\n
to a martial arts gym and the black belt instructor<\/p>\n
couldn’t do anything to keep him down<\/p>\n
one time a guy picked him up in the air<\/p>\n
with a lift and shook it so he might fall<\/p>\n
much to the laughs of the other men<\/p>\n
and he put vice grips around this man’s chest<\/p>\n
and squeezed on them until ribs were broken<\/p>\n
after he finally let him down<\/p>\n
and I nodded and grunted and yessir’d my way<\/p>\n
up until my girlfriend’s mom asked me<\/p>\n
what tool he’s referring to when he talks about<\/p>\n
fixing this thing on the cherry pickers they broke<\/p>\n
I stutter for a second and then turn to look at her<\/p>\n
now joined by my girlfriend<\/p>\n
grinning like hungry wolves.<\/p>\n
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