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By Jack Joseph Smith

115 t dark ities once over the castle walls, When the enemy seems to be dead, then the agony begins, 1 fought them all, Right down to the teeth, O' Dandy and I took om fifteen cops-in kis drivways The fight lasted for about a half hour or sog We put our backs against the garage door and they began to drop as they came to uss They could have used their guns yitte true, but it was a different kind of confront ationg .They Imew it, They understood, They wanted us im the same way that we wanted them, 14 had been building for a long times They have put me behind bers at least ti..% twenty times-since I came home from Velley Forge, The bastards; That night was hell when they finally aver came us, They tied me up on a rail, like a pig for slaughter : and carried me down the driveway, I could see the orovd of faces on the hilig They were like sheep without ears on a misty nights’ Everything turned into a ahoeté When they had me in the car, they tried to break my arm with a claws Do you know-what @ claw-iss Nog It's an instrument like a hazd cuff they wrap around your arm, Ag they turm ity it tightens, The bastards, I told them to go fuck themselves, They kept on turning it untill I kieked the back of the drivers seat so hardg they were afraid to drive ; any more and they stoped turning the claws When we got to the station, they put me in a cell and then brought O'Dandy in and worked him over in front of meg What a joke the world is The man running for Yistrict Attorney oi the Republican ticket : défended uss What a triaitl All Mount Lebanon was there;,and we walked off; They thought we-were-going away for a years And we wardees Why? Because my Dad haw political power on this-Hill; My Dad had # call the attorney and ask him how much the bill was, Every last one of the senterols, t nave watched fall under mes Downy. downy bleGding with drips blending their deep red with green grass,, until’. they,

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Michael recounts a savage fight with police, being tied up and worked over with a "claw," and then escaping serious punishment because his father had enough political power on the Hill.

The account is vivid in its physical details: the garage door stand, the rail "like a pig for slaughter," the tool tightening on his arm, the station-house spectacle with O'Dandy. Bravado and bitterness sit together here, especially when public violence ends not in justice but in influence and release.

Claude

The O'Dandy-and-Michael driveway fight against fifteen cops is recounted: back against the garage door, a claw tightened on his arm, the crowd on the hill like sheep without ears, and the Republican DA who later defended them.