Greenbach
A 16 year old apprentice
Fresh to working underground
Miners telling tragic stories
Of bodies never found .
Greenbach was a huge man
Working only in his boots and belt
For every scar on his naked body
He had a horror story to tell.
Each designed to give nightmares
To the apprentice as he slept
but the apprentice swore to avenge himself
and his promises he kept .
He noticed at lunchtime
Greenbach dined alone
For fifteen minutes every day
He heard that snoring drone .
This was the perfect time
The apprentice made his plan
Tomorrow Greenbach you are mine
This Mountie will get his man .
That afternoon at the joke shop
He see's the Halloween masks in their rows
The apprentice finds a beauty
With no eyes , No mouth , No nose.
A good handful of his mothers wool
Made a mop of bright red hair
He's ready for the morning
When greenbach takes his chair .
The buzzer on the tannoy
Announced lunchtime had come
The lads see him getting ready
and egg our apprentice on .
The 16 year old is nervous
but he turns his headlamp onto dim
Creeps up to the snoring Grrenbach
and sits down next to him .
Though only minutes it seems like hours
but the apprentice sits without a sound
The lads hidden behind the timber
That is scattered all around.
First we heard the buzzer
Then the scream as Greenbach ran
arggggghhhhhhhhhhhh
Someone effing help me
A bully became just another man .
Greenbach wasn't happy
When he discovered what the apprentice had done
but that huge wobbling beer belly
became the object of so much fun
Eventually the anger
Would begin to slide
but Greenbach now takes his lunch with his workmates
and sits with a man on either side.
Copyright © Darren Watson | Year Posted 2014
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