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Death of a Fireman By Brad Buchanan The oldest fireman adjusts his gaze to the scale of incomprehensible skies which have produced, after fifty years, the farthest-fetched of emergencies. The retirement gifts and the accolades for sedentary virtues refuse to go on without proof of age's recklessness. He has recognized the proper time and place of his death, the suitable scrap heap for his used ambitions, the last stand of self-worth-- two crowded towers about to be razed. His visor protects him from this vision, and tumbling wreckage renders it moot. His body is one of the first the mission of rescuers finds. He is never found out. |
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