he found a fragment

                     found that it enticed him enough to try to make something out of it

Yawanna make something of it

                                 a favourite playground taunt  made or taken usually ended up in a fisticuff

he didnt mindhad older brothers

                                  he couldnt avoid boxing in their backyard if he wanted  so he watchedfoughtlearnedgot good quick until they werent keen on calling him out

the undisputed Backyard Champ

they upset their mother constantly 

                                   she was left to putting them back together again  ice on lumps knuckles steak for an eye  on a few occasions stitches  she was good with a needle  probably would have made an excellent corner woman in a ring

         she ministered them  

he was the family wisenheimer  he coined and shared it with his brothers and in the heyday at the dinner table seating themselves theyd tease their parents  call them Mister and Minister

he wouldnt trade one single momentnot one lump or bump black eye broken nose to be raised in another family another environment brothersblood brothers their own little gang if need be

                                                                          eventually their notoriety preceded them

strap in

         might be a wild ride  Whasup Kokomo Joe?  Just got back from a Wild West show.

not strap on

               not guns  they had fists   not strap on    they had cocks

as boys they took their father strop when they crossed him hed go to Hell before hed spoil them 

they grew into strapping young men

funny the alleys a fragment will take a fella

1755,  Day-between-Two-Ts,  15  12. 21

1247,  Saturday,  18  12. 21

Fela Kuti  Alu Jon Jonki Jon  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vhpCNq-nbQ