CAT 272D coming in hot with a birch for the trim of a dental office. This thing moves like she\u2019s on fire, gets up to a mile an hour, everyone checking out the skid steers. With her blade off, she\u2019s a beauty\u2014bumble-yellow, and me standing in the hatch, pushing the lever as far as she can go. Only problem being I\u2019m distracted about Dawn, who\u2019s waking up about now in her rambler just south of Hingham.<\/p>\n
Kota\u2019s out of his truck on Commonwealth and coming toward me, hard hat on sideways. He\u2019s on a mission under the Citgo sign. Every morning is a concert of screeching and freighting.<\/p>\n
\u201cMorning!\u201d he yells.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou, too, buddy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat the birch for up there?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYessir.\u201d<\/p>\n
What me and Dawn got up to last night wasn\u2019t the usual. Normally, it goes like this: She calls me, and I drive to Hingham at the slightest suggestion, watch something Meg Ryan, something Julia Roberts, Cameron Diaz, until I\u2019m stroking the inside of Dawn\u2019s hand, (letting go and grabbing thigh, then inner-thigh, then inner-inner-thigh), eventually get lost around three-thirty to beat traffic for work, and move site materials in the CAT 272D.<\/p>\n
This time, when she called, it wasn\u2019t for fun. She had things to say to me that I \u201cprobably didn\u2019t want to hear,\u201d about what it\u2019s really like for her, that being a girl is morbid and wild, everything with me is great in the moment, then the waking up alone, that apparently, she cries, can\u2019t sleep, that \u201call I want from her\u201d is minutes and seconds.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you hit last night?\u201d Kota calls out. \u201cThe milf?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNope! She gave me the hook.\u201d<\/p>\n
But with her gone, I\u2019m like wait a minute, maybe I do love her, and can remember a time she looked beautiful\u2014that one moment of sunlight\u2014leaning on her air conditioner with the day closing over her. The buggy\u2019s going strong toward the office, which has got all glass doors, and Kota\u2019s getting pulled aside, reprimanded for cigs onsite. I look up at the sign blinking red to blue. I\u2019d thought she was sleeping with someone else. There were always two plates from dinner in the sink, soaking, smeared with mushroom sauce and mash, and pork and cherries stuck in a pan on the stove. Romantic and too much effort for just Dawn alone. Or she\u2019d made it for us, and I was late, so she\u2019d eaten and put the rest in the trash. Kota says to boss man to go fuck himself and storms off, throwing his hat down on the asphalt with a crack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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