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Now, here's a tribute
to all the men and women

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who have worked with our hands.

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We banter back and forth
the price for laying brick.

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You people only pay the rich
those who already have money.

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I have a whole yard of bricks
collected over 30 years working

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as a damn mason, offer
you a good price,

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load them on the truck,
bring sand and gravel,

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do the work almost
for nothing, and you

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ain't going to pay me half
what the hunter charges.

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He was right.

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I relented paid
him $0.70 a block.

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Next day he brought him,
tow and cement mixer

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behind his old truck.

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He rounded the weeping
Willow trunk with block

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left over from apartment as
he'd worked on six years ago.

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Then poured cement and
troweled it smooth.

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After he was done, he asked, can
I have that roller back wire?

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He lives by scraps.

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Built three houses
for his daughters

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was construction site scraps.

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In English, his name
is perfect flower.

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Brawny man with bull
shoulders, who 40 years ago

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came from Tarahumara
Mexico, tired of the mines

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the somnolent
spirit of Mexicans.

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I was the first one to say
I wouldn't ride the bus.

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It was falling apart.

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I refused and the rest followed.

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And soon, a new boss was
brought up the mountain.

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I gave him our old
Falcon for pouring cement

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in the guest cottage.

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And a jar of blessed black
purple Akima corn kernels

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for helping me uproot a tree.

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Gave him seven rabbits and
a box of chickens for help

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me cut Adobe arches.

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We curse and laugh as we work.

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He proudly helps a wheelbarrow
brimmed with cement, ha, 62,

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cabrón, and you--

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nah you'd break your damn back.

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He ribs, proud of his strength.

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He has nothing that glows
his face so much as stories

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of working years, feats
of courage in the mines

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when he was called upon to
defuse dynamite that didn't

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explode short, stocky,
gray-haired man always

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in his yard scattering
chicken seed nailing sawing.

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Always dressed in green
overalls chews or ground weed

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carries a stub pencil
and a grimy water,

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paper for figuring.

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Always turns to me
when I drive or walk

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to his yard with a roguish grin.

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His love of telling
stories competes with mine.

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He growls with laughter at
the blisters on my hands,

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spreads his palms up
like a gallery owner who

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strips black cloth off a prized
van Gogh painting and says,

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look, you could sharpen a fight
on his hands, he grins proudly.

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[APPLAUSE]

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