"How Crit Finally Won Out Over Lit"

[David Morris]

Hammer,

This is beautiful.  Thank you.  Who is the author? 

David Morris

--- Swing Hammerswing <hammerswingswing at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> When I was just a kid, eighteen-years-of-age, I already had
> a three-years-old daughter and I was already a sophmore
> at XXXXX. I didn't have a driver's licenseand I couldn't afford to live very 
> close to the campus. They have, and they had then
> a very good public transportation system, but I had to
> drop my dauhget off at Mrs. Toscano's house (I'll never forget her
> or her house, as soon as you stepped into Mrs. Toscano's
> home you stood at attention, both her boys were MIA, she had
> newspaper clippings of the Kennedy boys and MLK hung on
> the walls like stations of the cross, but she took good
> care of my daughter, better than me, and she was kind....)...
> And one morning driving my bike to Mrs. Toscano's house,
> my knees stickin out of my faded jeans, my ass not hanging
> out for the whole world to see cause I patched the seat
> with an American flag, my Norton Critical in a paper sack
> dangling from the handle bars below Divinity's feet, suddenly the
> bag swung out as I swerved to avoid a bottle on the road
> and when I straightened the wheel that Norton critical,
> thick as any NYC phone book, thin, nearly translucent the pages,
> delicate articles, dainty and dignified phrases, well-crafted poems,
> gods and men, women too, was fed like toilet paper on the fork
> to the shreading spokes and momentum of the turning wheels, it
> didn't slow the bike anymore than playing cards, confetti whirling,
> my daughter giggling, I soaked  the perspiration from my forehead
> with the back of my right and then the left forearm,
> dabbing at the involuntary tears on my cheek bones.

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