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HIgh 1111 Ilaw TIME 11 Ii 30 00 Night nIght Eight stories upon a 0 scaffold cleaning th Metropolitan building Just Juit looked a ai my v atch and started across the thu to help hOlp Bro ni tie In iii 1 his hid hend end About time to eat at Sudden Suddenly I 1 see the rope part and we rs sta stait I down I guess vie e 0 re goners gonor Dro nie I 1 yell He doesn't n an- an a s er Hes He's straddle the plank Ard Atthe the moon white on his face I am standing up 11 30 01 We 01 We pass th the seventh floor I start to my arms to keep heel upright B Bio 0 faints faints- faints I see los his head wobble Scared sense sense- senseless less A tackle hook bounces UI and wallops him on n the chin as th bord nicks a I cornice lIe He still clutches the board riding like a buckaroo Below J I see a man mm start c out into the empty street Looking up Mouth open 1130 My 02 02 My mother In Gary f md Ind How bid d she slie and dad in inthe the kids will feel when they bring brin Ime me home She used to bawl baM m nIG me out for tor doing this work worl wor I But Im I'm falling falling- falling My My thoughts flash back to 0 Brownie riding that buckin buckine boud Why don t he wake up and try to grab STab something I try to ye yell I at him but the tho wind in my mouth wont ont let me mI Guess were we're goners gonet all right right- Keep sour lour our head 1 in ho bo so 50 your neck won t crack when you hit Keep fanning the air Sti I up straIght 11 30 04 04 Why aint I scared seared I That must have hae been the fourth floor cornice flashing past The Theman Theman Tilman man in the street has moved out ut a little further Ills His open mouth a ahole ahole hole of black shadow Street get get- getting ge ting closer Someone screaming screaming- Moon shining calm Yes the tha old lady Il will take it pretty hard That s 5 the bunk about dying before you a hit Still look Still look at Brownie Hose and light wires twisting round hint him hit I like Uhe snakes i 1130 There Thero 05 There goes the third thir I story Yes twisting Like snakes snake I Or like wild grapevines railing rallin lm Im Im I'm still falling failing Why the devil don dont t I 1 faint taint 1130 Close 06 06 Close lose now All muscles muscle tight for tor the smash Neck In mi 1 Walking on a plank In the air A totter teeter First I 1 m up then Brownie very Everything thing like clear clear like a slow-motion slow mo movie motle Ie Street STa gra Hard lard Goners Goner Goners sure But keep fanning fanning- 11 ii 30 10 Whack 07 07 Whack Scaffold board boar hits an ai an awning on the second story ston It jars jaI My ty knees bend Im I'm bump bump- bumped ed cd out at an angle I catch my first breath I come como smack to the Ule th rf It I Y YI I 1 2 1 S I- I t y 1 7 i t 11 tt jl I It S St SI i t t tr t I I I I IS I S Elmer Eisner G Cos S hor hotts ho hO hib hb thoughts as lie he tell lell side sidewalk on my feet teet My feet sting S bUt blot but I 1 m not a goner then Ihen an- an another another i- i other hard smash Brownie right it b behind me Missed the a No use tring to talk to him Brownies Brownie's a goner GOSS CLOSE SHAVES YES A As a boy of 12 fell 90 feet from fro coal tipple into pile of waste no i Injuries Tumbled 75 feet oft off steel truss at i I I n B row i r o 0 w n fl I cs c's k fainted S c n 1 n l 1 man ce man looking i UI t month month open 1 f I now II 0 w b bad n js mother and nd dad Umi 2 tho kids kl u si-u 11 i fed x when th I bring me mc home I II I Guess Gnes ess we goners Ic K I o c c p 3 ronI neck In III o Iy our neck wont won't t crack I I aint I scored scared d Streets Street's I C close 1 0 s c r 7 S 0 n e f 0 T n C I S screaming I UI tin 11 Im I'm Im I'm Im I'm till still tall tall- talling fail falline S 5 SIng ing hy the theIN c IN n I faint Z S Close now n o 0 I hA AH AU t 1 1 6 1 for the tho sm smas lI 1 BI Goners Goner sure Ire But ButI I keep keel fanning Whack Im I'm I ii 1 not a 1 h c n amr am Brownie Brown sI mi-aed mi the a r inS inS-a goner e thy after alter l Ills his s thrilling fall Diagram gl gli air Gary Ind Tad Into load of sand him him- himor Ml or bruises Rocketed feet off ott smokestack at Waukegan ill III into carload of ashes on passing freight knocked knock wind Ind outI out Dropped feet from Los An- An Angeles Angeles Ai geles pull building dIng with broken scat scat- I folding landed handed on awning and andI bounced to street tred tung his feet I lie He has seen four of his high bish job companions killed |