i had seen an excerpt of this months ago but i needed to find and read the whole thing after i watched the kensuke/nakajima match
How to Drown a Boy
Not with water, but with sweat,
you work the boy until he cries.
At the barn faucet, think of your own father,
cup your hands and tell the boy
to look deep inside this well,
make him drink from your hands,
make him drink until he swells, make
him taste the salt and split nails,
cracked knuckles, bone, and blood.
Tell him this blood is the life I have given,
this blood the covenant, that you must always
measure your life against mine.
Now sneak him the whiskey
behind the shed where his mother can't see,
show him that this is what a man has earned,
and just a taste because he's only a boy,
with too much of his mother in him.
A sip more and he will learn.
And if the sharpness of the still
leaves him weak,
or the swing of the hammer
wears him out,
and if he squirms
at the trigger pull
to give the doe a chance to flee,
then walk the boy down to the river
and baptize him there
with your own two hands.