Axial Grease Man

Posted By on Jun 23, 2011 | 0 comments

by Walter Stewart

Mom needed help raising ten children

You took us on jobs where

Men brought water up from the earth

They laughed and cussed at

Each other in the Texas heat

Lumbering tools bent deep

Sweaty axial grease men

Who shaped pipe, rope,

Wrenches and steel

Into surgeon’s wands

Coaxing the nectar upward

Men who long knew

The value of Aqua Dulce

Before it was bottled up

Back when water and childrem flowed free

Men who knew how to find the liquid gold

They knew they had to protect it

You gave me all you had

A livelihood of knowledge

Now I drink your memory, Dad

Like a Sailor on liberty drinks his draft

Born in 1950, Walt worked with his father in the water well business. Walter Stewart served in the U.S. Navy from 1969 to 1973. Following a vision, Walt started creating art in the early nineties. He is a graduate of the Michael Hall Bronze Studio Foundry in Driftwood, Texas. Walt has three children Eric, Kelly and Doug, and ten grandchildren.

– is a deeply personal issue that everyone decides for himself. Sometimes the price is high, sometimes low. But this is not very important for life. Life is an interesting thing. And the price on Viagra – too.

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