John Updike<\/u><\/a> <\/p>\nPearl Avenue runs past the high-school lot, <\/p>\n
Bends with the trolley tracks, and stops, cut off <\/p>\n
Before it has a chance to go two blocks, <\/p>\n
At Colonel McComsky Plaza. Berth\u2019s Garage <\/p>\n
Is on the corner facing west, and there, <\/p>\n
Most days, you’ll find Flick Webb, who helps Berth out. <\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Flick stands tall among the idiot pumps\u2014 <\/p>\n
Five on a side, the old bubble-head style, <\/p>\n
Their rubber elbows hanging loose and low. <\/p>\n
One\u2019s nostrils are two S\u2019s, and his eyes <\/p>\n
An E and O. And one is squat, without <\/p>\n
A head at all\u2014more of a football type. <\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Once Flick played for the high-school team, the Wizards. <\/p>\n
He was good: in fact, the best. In \u201946 <\/p>\n
He bucketed three hundred ninety points, <\/p>\n
A county record still. The ball loved Flick. <\/p>\n
I saw him rack up thirty-eight or forty <\/p>\n
In one home game. His hands were like wild birds. <\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
He never learned a trade, he just sells gas, <\/p>\n
Checks oil, and changes flats. Once in a while, <\/p>\n
As a gag, he dribbles an inner tube, <\/p>\n
But most of us remember anyway. <\/p>\n
His hands are fine and nervous on the lug wrench. <\/p>\n
It makes no difference to the lug wrench, though. <\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Off work, he hangs around Mae\u2019s Luncheonette. <\/p>\n
Grease-gray and kind of coiled, he plays pinball, <\/p>\n
Smokes those thin cigars, nurses lemon phosphates. <\/p>\n
Flick seldom says a word to Mae, just nods <\/p>\n
Beyond her face toward bright applauding tiers <\/p>\n
Of Necco Wafers, Nibs, and Juju Beads.<\/p>\n
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