TOPPLED TREES STRANDED CARS

I was eleven. My job come home from school and take care of my younger sister.
Dad a no show alcoholic. Mom had been in two near fatal wrecks. She was afraid
to drive even though it was the drunk who wrecked. She took the bus to work.
She never made it home two days. I don't remember the last half mile. I was pushing
my bike. Somehow I lit the fire. Phones out neighbor let me know they had my sister.
No lights, heat from a oil furnace and coal stove. Plywood windows. Still the worst
snow storm in history. Five foot drifts.

School let out nine thirty in the morning
I was eleven and that was exciting
My most prized possession my bicycle
In soft white snow I was ridding
A smart boy like me should have gone home
But knowing me you would have known
I went to a friends house to phone
Phone doesn't work you stay to play
His Mom came home what does she say,
"Danny there's a blizzard out go home"
40 mile winds five foot drifts did roam
She said I could stay but sister was alone
Up the hill hard pushing a bike a fool
It was a mile from my house to school
Some say I should have left the bike behind
Snow in my face I was pushing blind
Temperature dropping fell twelve degrees
Once or twice I fell to my knees
But I couldn't stay down or would freeze
Hours later I got home Sister wasn't there
She stayed a girlfriends house that was fair
For once I wasn't afraid to drop the match
Under the blankets the heat was unmatched
Mom didn't get home at night she was stranded
It was two days before the hill all sanded
As I read the article the day was special
It was Friday the thirteenth nineteen fifty
Sons of Norway square dance canceled nifty
I had cold tomato soup and a warm red fire
When thawed I found my bike had a flat tire

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