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The Mechanic

Matthew Guzman

Lingering second day cigarette smoke
reminds me of you.
Looking so cool,
a half-naked girl inked on your immense bicep,
your cig clamped between your teeth,
huddled in grease under a perpetually broken,
shit brown Dodge.

“Junior...Jun-ior! Hand me that wrench...No!
Not that one, the other one.
Are you fucking retarded?!”
Those eyes pumping with gasoline,
a sparkplug for a heart.
Engine running,
broken and explosive.

Skiddish and shy out in public,
His head down, hands in pockets, speaking softly.
But...between private shaking walls,
Master.
With a wife not old enough to drive, and
one boy, quivering from His slightest word, He
idling until the next explosion.

Now, those stained inch thick callous hands
reside in that Dodge,
his own world of:
sleeping behind department stores,
bathing under rest stop facets.
A grease slathered, broken down,
Father.

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