all the men who knew how to live have long been dead
The one who showed me car battery contact cleaners 
after watching me push start my car backwards by myself for two months
As dead as the geo I totaled at that stop sign when my friend tried to skip my favorite song on the radio
We rode bikes from one side of town to the other when I was young.
My dad taught me to melt the patches on my bike tires. He didnt have a license when he taught me how to drive out of necessity.
Necessity, Like the degree I couldn&#39;t afford that I got so I knew how to fix a car myself. Because all the men who knew how to live
Have all been long dead