When the Furniture Comes

<p>As the bail out of 2008 neared Tyler Hopkins chief negotiator<br />for Big Gnocchi Brother’s Inc. felt the press of the white whale<br />beaching toward Main Street and feared the carcass’ implosion.<br />Tyler’s BGB Inc. foreman Jamber lead singer in an AC/DC<br />cover band is due in Family Court to remit forty-eight thousand<br />dollars in back child support of which he is forty-two thousand<br />dollars light. Limon twenty-three year old American-Mexican<br />immigrant is the force of the Gotham Minors a schist breaking<br />division of Tyler’s company. Limon wields a one hundred and<br />twelve pound sledgehammer over the hands of splitting maul<br />cradler Umberto a sixty-two year old Puerto Rican transplant<br />from the Bronx. The third member of the crew light barer key man<br />and mule is a rebellious scholar from Merida who distinguishes<br />the six mauls used by the minors to slab schist by linking the<br />names of the Apostles from the New Testament with those from<br />the Gnostic Gospels--unbeknownst to the romantic scholar he<br />is also lunch fetch. It is the task of the Gotham Minors breaking<br />schist below the sidewalks of Manhattan to clear enough room<br />in the earth for the passage of a man’s head…without disturbing<br />the neighbors.</p>