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He's the first on the
scene of an accident

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or a child is seriously injured.

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He picks her up.

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He has very large hands.

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Looney has very large
hands and almost no neck.

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The Chevrolet dealer
calls him a troglodyte.

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He doesn't know what that means.

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But he's the first one there.

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And he picks her up very
gently and puts her into a car.

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And she survives.

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And he takes great
pride in feeling

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that he has helped in
the saving of her life.

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Poem number 13.

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That hot August night, I
was the first to reach her.

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Her face laid open like a movie.

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There was rubber in the air,
and the driver of the car

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not unable to grip his fingers
stuck like a fly on glue

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behind the wheel.

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And the girl seemed not much
heavier than a scrap of pine.

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Her little blood, a warm
uneasy tickling at my hands.

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And someone said later, he
had never noticed them before,

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the hands.

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How brown, how big is buckets?

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And the child hung on.

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Its foot, its face
full grown now

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saying hello, hello to Looney
from its twisted smile.

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