Going On Emotion

Going on emotion, a boxer reels and fights his final round. Punch-drunk and bloody, his heart as big as Texas, he struggles on to land that lucky strike A mother counting pennies tries to stretch her budget for another cotton blanket for her tiny baby boy, he's just three months, the little tyke. A street musician with his violin tries to pay his way through college, plays the subways and the coffee shops, his hopes are high 'til a Copper tells the kid to take a hike. A paraplegic in his wheelchair doing wheelies in the hallways of the County General Hospital and flirting with the nurses, in many ways they're all alike. They're going on emotion, and 'no' is not a part of their vocabulary.