I had a lot of jobs in Los Angeles Harbor because our family was poor and my father was dead.
We were digging an excavation in an empty lot, there wasn\'t any shade, the sun came straight from a cloudless sky, and I was down in that hole digging with two huskies who dug with a love for it, always laughing and telling jokes, laughing and smoking bitter tobacco..
Every night I couldn\'t sleep from the pain in my back.
My first job was ditchdigging a short time after I graduated from high school.
I had a lot of jobs in Los Angeles Harbor because our family was poor and my father was dead