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88 with the Balls Feet and fingera went high kicking and clawing for the balls It was the death game for the child aristocrats We played it all the way, .and the mill town kids loved it, Kill beeame a word thet was in our eyess We fought to the death and hated the man with the ball, Vengepnee was the sigh, that captured our eyes and strung our hearts-outy like the beating drym of structions Kill him, 111 hims Ha-hay running with the wind pealing through your uncovered layerss Get hing Smash him downs I'bI' get him first next times “he spirit of the wolf burned insides You eould’ elose your fist and cateh him on the Tun, and if you were lueky, lift him in the air abhbstrstriping the ligements in your arms Biting was invited dows : deep below the seresming, Ruming in a pack and curving with. the cirele he ereated in hia wide turn) Kill him Letting yourself fly at his heals, sometimes: missing in your cast away chance, and sometimes catehing him solid below the knsea and hearing his shoulder crack the ices When I had the ball I went into the evil’ dance : ; wo, Tongues of a god, I was a women moving my hips with the music of their toungss So quick ‘ I was, and with a freedom, unknowns No wordss.no laws,, nothing could touch meg I wented the ball forever im my vanishing movements with a barren sea of mouths opening like monster waves white with streaks in the black nights I cold feel their movements following my every touch with the partion of lifes Glory be to the boy who ia Aranes the longest, until his limgs churn the gasp of unequaled i exhaustion, There was little Beaver panting with us all, Beaver was my friends i I loved him, We had fought in the snow once from the time of the chill morning, ' until the sux was going down above eur heated loins, We were laughing so hard, | that we had ip put toush each other to send one anouther falling on our heades : I watched him running with Blackie, the For, Tank and Larry the Mouse, I would swivel and turn, my face feeling the wind open to my eyea,.and I would speed on ‘ |