First Job
by Thomas Cochran


Gasoline dried
and cracked

my hands, tips
of fingers sliced

at nail corners
by that and cold

mornings pumping
gallons going

at thirty-two
for low Regular

and forty-one
for high Premium—-

Hamic’s Gulf,
long time ago.







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