Copy of the poem:
the ice worker singsby Andreas Montoyait didn't matter to him that it was only seasonal
or that he had no choice but the graveyard shift;
a job in the ice plant in the hot fresno summer
was as close as he'd get to heaven.
or at least, this is what he thought.
he liked this job cause they let him alone.
here everyone wore ear plugs
and he was left in a room
by himself to stack blocks
of ice into rows of crystal perfection,
rows and rows, a huge army
of petrified water standing at attention
he found himself marching back and forth
singing songs he never knew he loved.
sometimes he would sing rock
or blues or even a classical tune
he'd heard on a bad radio commercial.
but, mostly, he would steal the beats
and put in his own words about life,
about love, about dying,
this is how he became a poet
parting ways with the sad ocean
of ordinary speech, he sang loud
and he liked it. No one ever told him
to shut up, or that he couldn't carry a tune.
he enjoyed seeing song
spring from between his lips
in the white breath of the cold room.
he found he could forget everything
while he sang among the ice:
the house that kept shedding shingles,
the mad dogging eyes that followed him
to work, and his cowardice under the yellow street lamps
while he knelt on the road of potholes and gravel and dust
begging the moon to release him from his fear of everything.
but here he sang, and his army of ice
to him were warriors from tula, big
square warriors, sympathetic to the orders
of their general, which of course was him.
they laughed when he laughed
and cried when he cried.
only here, he never cried.
he didn't have to.
at home, his mother slept with the windows open
in hope a breeze would finally blow.
at home, they didn't have refrigeration.
at home, even the walls were hot.
on breaks he would sit outside
on the bench to smoke and drink coffee.
here he would pray for his mother,
pray for angels to come carrying machine-
guns and flamethrowers
to keep watch over her.
he would pray for wind
so that she, like him, might escape
the hell of fresno in the summer.
and when the break was over
he would go back to the ice
and give life to his army,
he would go back to the ice
and sing.
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