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Jun. 26, 2007 F. F was funny. He had a walk and an overall movement like he was in some sort of perpetual slow motion moment. He drove the truck on Tuesdays and Thursdays and I was by his side, and always something to ponder would happen. One time we backed into a Volvo and he grabbed his chest but warned me not to worry, just to call the paramedics, as it was a heart palpitation thing he had. So I called em’ and they took him away and I asked them if they were going to bring him back. They told me it was kind of a one-way sort of deal. I was left there with the big box truck and all the steel frames and covers we were delivering. One other time some woman comes running out onto the street yelling his name. He asks her how the hell she has been and she says great. He tells me later her name was Cherry, and he used to go over to her house late in the night but that it was difficult because she had two big Dobermans. Those were good days he says. F was a welder, and he welded at a very slow pace. He always talked of his woman friends. Someone told me that he used to give out the Eucharist on Sundays at church. One time F died. They said he had a brain aneurysm. He looked pale and sunken at the viewing. I see him though. I see him the last time I saw him alive. He is moving past the power washer outside, and has a part of a table in his hand. He didn’t work there anymore, but had shown up through the back door to weld a part of some table back together. The sun is there, by the barbed wire fence, and a few feet up is the green trim of the building that F painted. He had long before stood on a ladder there painting it and telling me it was going to rain because he could feel it in his knees. F. F keeps walking, up the side of the building. He has disappeared there, up around the corner, on the unpaved roadway, where the dirt is always up in the air, where the cars and trucks park and you can hardly tell the difference between which ones are in use, which ones are abandoned, and which ones are something in between. F. ------------ Email Brian Michael Barbeito: Brian1750@Hotmail.com Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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