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By Jack Joseph Smith
When they hit the steel pole at ninety miles an hour Gibbons
didn't know what hit him. John on the other hand knew one of his
legs was finished. When the doctors came they called a prist from
the Jesuit because Gibbons was dead until he decided not to be.
"Let's drink to the rich Harry. After all it's nice to know about
banks and revolution when you stand to inheart both."
The pause was maybe the crash. Where the madness unfolds from an ending.
"Smart, hungh Harry?"
"Vicious Hanch? Vicious."
Fife stood on the long green. His blue eyes were that of the black
raven. The blue that has never been in water. His shoulders were that
of the stories told about wild boars that leap the long run. He was
from Nebraska.
"Alright? Let's settle it down. Gibbons was never going to be a
quarterback here anyway. He's alive. He is not coming back to us. I
am going to see him. The entire team is invited except for the rest
of the quarterbacks. Hit it."
Fife got into a car latter than it's own time, put in a gear and
drove toward the hospitle. He was deeply saddened. Fife did not like
this at all. Many times he had beat men and women half to death over
drinking, but maybe because he refused to deal with accidents interr-
fering with his necessary madness he was twisted in his head like
a grandfather wheel left to accomidate the last place where one can
accomidate one's incest groves.
When he got there Gibbons mother had death in her hands. Fife told
her of course not and muttered on his way through the halls that "it
was just a matter of time till he woke up to get worse."