and I the last day of November of the following year
We fought
I could win by spreading his fingers apart
One day he punched me
and that was the end of spreading the fingers apart
but not the end of punching
Old man now
remembers he has never know
exactly what age these battles were
My brother could and did
beat me up from that point on
I can't remember any of the whys or what fors
but whats clear
I'm a lousy puncher
I don't want to punch anybody
probably cause I know how much it can hurt
I don't think I ever had
ever really punched anyone
I was a teenager at a time
when you could be 15-17 with a fake ID that said you were 18
and walk to a bar, get in and drink in there
and do stupid things like knock over garbage cans in a neighborhood
while walking home
RB and I got beat-up by a car load of neighborhood vigalantes
a lot of punches were thrown at me
but oddly enough I felt nothing
and only now realize the adults were feigning punching us
That was my last juvenile delinquent act I think
Almost twenty I guess
brother and I were in another spat
crazy French uncle was in the mix too
and a sixth sense took over
and I relaxed and slowed
brothers sixth sense took notice too I think
the situation just halted and that was that
Detente
I was setting up to punch his lights out with a surgical strike
And that was the last fight we ever had
The last physical fight
