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This is called "My Happiness."

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That spring day I
stood in the new grass

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and watched the
man cutting steel

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with an arc welder, the man
my mother had just married.

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I watched as he leaned
in his welder's mask

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and held a blue white
star to a steel rod

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until it was glowing with heat.

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A cloud drifted in front of
the sun and darkened the land,

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the way sweat darkened his back.

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Then with some slip of
the body or misjudgment

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of a man given over
wholly to his work,

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a piece of glowing metal
fell like a tiny meteor

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into his boot.

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His hand went down,
his fingers seared,

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then the smell of burnt
flesh, a groan of pain,

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and the crazy hopping.

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He fumbled in his pocket for
a knife, slit open the boot,

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and swatted the hot
metal off his ankle.

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What could I do?

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I ran for mother
and bucket of water.

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In that spring day I
remember my happiness

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as I poured the cold
water over his wound,

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and she put her arm around his
neck, and the sun came out,

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and the mysterious
healing began.

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And he was saying, "Oh, Jesus."

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And she was saying, "Oh, honey."

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[APPLAUSE]

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