The Give
- By Eric Moreno
- Published 02/18/2008
Eric Moreno
Eric L. Moreno is a freelance writer and lifelong resident of San Antonio, Texas. He is a proud graduate of East Central High School and the University of Texas at San Antonio and lives and dies with the Chicago Cubs. Among his writing influences, he would count Ernest Hemingway, Larry McMurtry, William Goldman, Elmore Leonard, Quentin Tarantino, Bill Willingham, Stephen Ambrose, Geoff Johns and Roy Thomas. Ex Nihilo, Nihil Fit
The Give
You feel the Give
There is some thing
That was once whole
Solid
Now … it is not.
Physics and action
Come together
In a playfield of
Violence.
There is a Give.
It is tangible.
It is tactile.
Whether it happens all at once
Or after repetition,
It does not matter.
Through the steely piston of your arm,
If you feel the Give,
You feel “good.”
God-like.
Powerful.
It is a Give as life recedes.
Bone on bone.
Flesh on flesh.
Sick-sounding wetness smacks in your ear.
Force is applied to an “object,”
And the object cannot help but yield.
There is a Give.
The sound of:
A dried tree branch underneath a boot
A walnut in the relentless grip of an iron vise
A ripe, flowing watermelon beneath an aluminum baseball bat.
