Under The Hammer

[stilltrucking]

Teamster hiring hall
south baltimore
next door to the hardware store
with the huge big hammer neon sign
hanging out over the sidewalk
where we used to loiter
and smoke and tell our stories

there in the heart of the city we could have been aboriginal warriors dancing around a camp fire. A brotherhood.
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under the big hammer
Hutch told his story
about loading coil steel
not chained down tight
foreman hurried him up
load shifted
driver killed
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Next day he was not there
"Where's Hutch" I asked
someone told me he fell dead
off a freight dock
told me he was dead before he hit the ground.
Everybody loved Hutch, he had integrity
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Us teamster brothers hanging out
standing under the big hammer
of the hardware store
next door to the union hall
on hanover street in south baltimore
we all told our stories
& I believed that big neon hammer on the sign would come down on my head if I told a lie.



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[MrGuilty]

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[MrGuilty]

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[the mingo]

I ended up playing all three of these at the same time - didn't know ya could do that. That was cool.

[stilltrucking]

Re:
MrGuilty
"sorry"

maybe not best first thought
condolences I think I meant


Clip board dump
of haiku

What?

feathers of birds
in the wind
flocking together

Good movie
I used to have a tape of the sound track.
I had a job as a projectionist in a drive in theatre
Say(w) that move twice a night for a while

Where I had the boss who made me nuts
gimme the shakes.
He running to his car to get his gun because the cadets from the local miltiary accademy (the last one to finally admit women) had dissed him, laughed at him when he tried to play the sherriff cause they was getting too rowdy on the party row.