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Show Go Love/123 down from the funnel, feed pond catfish wind the uplift vortex and understand their dear friend Crow. In May, 1976, when Aerosmith's Walk This Way was playing out the T-tops of all the jet-black Camaros, Lowman's Hardware and Grocery got hit, as did Templeton's IGA and Fred Woodhead's Feed & Seed and the slaughter house on the railroad track, where all the white bulls got loose and Deputy Biggs Self chased them all down Main Street with the sirens blaring, fire belching from his silver-plated .45. Lonoke Bank & Trust took it right on the chin, a dozen or so locked themselves up in the vault that got squeezed tight, then simply disappeared upward, delivering titles and one-hundred-year-old mortgage assessments up into the funnel's mouth Oh God-if there's a Jesus, I'm dead on sure he'd choose a tornado like the class five honeybabe that came to us that day in Spring, 1976, when I was fifteen and Coach Goody had us running 220's out on the cinder track, staring the mother, daring it to come Nobody was about to back that son of a bitch down though, so Coach fired all the blanks off from his starter's pistol and told us to crawl under something. It was the week before Panter Relays. The pole vaulters lay down with one another in the pits, and the high jumper cocked his red face to the sky All the hurdlers ceased to hurdle, the shot, discus and spear were laid down and the milers made a circle of themselves in the infield, praying the way distance men will. All our chins yanked up to the hooked tail and twisted shoulders. No! somebody screamed Our sprint relay ran a slow quarter mile, one behind the other-not sixteen inches between us- saying stick, so the runner in front would raise his arm behind his back and open his fingers and take the baton, and in turn say stick, they we'd seen Larry Gunn from Wabbaseka do it with the grey hood up over his afro, about to run a 47 flat quarter mile. Stick, he said on the curve. Stick we said as the curve bent straight Stick, we said it for that one slow quarter around Jackrabbit |
