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Pulaski At The Mission
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With a bad knee
Pulaski holed-up
at the mission
as the full-time janitor
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When I came thru with
my bedroll
he advised me where
I should not lay it down outside
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Not because of
hooligans
but
because of cops
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So I stayed
at
the
mission
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Pulaski trained me
to be
the mission’s next full-time janitor
but it never happened
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After he left to
camp on the river
I ended-up a janitor
only on the weekends
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I blog now
on public-library computers
on week days except Monday when
the library is closed
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I remember Pulaski
bringing me coffee in the early morning when
on the chapel floor
I was barely awake
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He
didn’t
have to
do that
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But I’m
sure
glad
he did.
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(Copyright Clyde Collins 2012)
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