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By Jack Joseph Smith
"Take your suit off to fight or ride Gibbons?" He wore levis, football
black
shirts that were white, unlaced shoes, and whatever black or blue he
could get in a jacket. "Ya! must have lost something Gibbons the way you
like your chin on your shoulder."
(There is alot to pause about) But when Gibbons thought about the glory
he was leaving he had to have action.
"You shine that chevy up John, he he, as in laughter? He he."
"Made it on my own Gibbon" John was black too and good looking. Thin.
Shoulders and bones. All the songs. To go where you haven't been either.
Streight chicle. (John's married for Christ's sake) The young that never
hear that corner loafing is hard are the ones that do it.
"For christ's sake," Gibbons thought. "I'm going to Notre Dame and all
the world loves me. Their is no kid Christ."
John was near the door of his black chevy. John held his mouth like a
ribbon. "I got whiskey Gibbon, and isn't it a mortal sin if you think
it, and a venual one if you don't? Let's face it. Together we're a piece
of ass."
"Yeah jagg off, I'll step in." And the motor hummed up.
A few miles down the road there was a pole waiting in space like an ant.
The presence of nothing grew as Gibbons laugh became abandon. There can
never be enough wind when one is landlocked.
"Alleghany County Gibbon!"
"Yeah, we'll take them off."
No matter what the air was sweet mostly because the brick laid out the
hills into the levels of the rich.