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The next one is a title
poem from the second half

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of the manuscript
called, "Haywire Cox."

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And it continues a character
that I introduced in the book

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I read from a minute ago.

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The town philosopher
and obese fellow

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who likes to sit in front of the
pool hall on a bench and talk,

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named Stocker.

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"Haywire Cox" is the
name of the poem.

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This small song for Haywire Cox.

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His limbs at rest at last now
at the bottom of our beer mugs.

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Haywire Cox, kicked in
the head by a milk cow,

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no more dangerous, Stocker
said, than a Baptist neutered.

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What Haywire Cox was
doing behind that cow

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and at such an angle, only
Haywire's arms, and hands,

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and fingers ever knew.

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And try as they
might, they were never

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able to flail forth the truth.

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Like wires busted
on a bale of hay,

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Stocker said, holding
nothing and going off

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dead ended in all
the wrong directions,

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yet their tireless
antics set it all.

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There had to be a
reason, and a good one.

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Sure as Adam broke
his teeth on apples.

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And he who doubts
it, Stocker said,

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does so at his own
and everlasting peril.

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Thus, this small
song for Haywire Cox.

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His animation at
rest at last now

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at the bottom of our beer mugs.

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And a toast, Stocker says,
for that one fountain

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cow or Christ whose will
commands the awful imprint that

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knows best.

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