I am the mashed fireman with breastbone broken
....tumbling walls buried me in their debris,
Heat and smoke I inspired....I heard the yelling
shouts of my comrades,
I heard the distant click of their picks and shovels;
They have cleared the beams away....they tenderly
lift me forth.
I lie in the night air in my red shirt....the
pervading hush is for my sake,
Painless after all I lie, exhausted but not so unhappy,
White and beautiful are the faces around me....
the heads are bared of their fire-caps,
The kneeling crowd fades with the light of the
torches.
"Please give me that bone.
Please give me that bone.
Give me that bone.
Give me that darn bone."
©Bowser,1999
Price Personality Beeks $2.00 Grumpy Herman $50.00 Friendly Jackie $36.72 Silly
© 2001, Fred Walsh
