and then the mick , one of those guys with curly red hair and a complexion so white he looked like he had tb or something , one of those guys whose names started with o and then had that little curly mark between the o and the real name , had blown on da boss 's desk , like a nino blowing out the candles on a birthday cake , and cards flew everywhere around balazar 's head , and balazar had opened the left top drawer in his desk , the drawer where other businessmen might keep their personal stationery or their private memos or something like that , and he had brought out a .45 , and he had shot the mick in the head , and balazar 's expression never changed , and after 'cimi and a guy named truman alexander who had died of a heart attack four years ago had buried the mick under a chickenhouse somewhere outside of sedonville , connecticut , balazar had said to 'cimi , `` it 's up to men to build things , paisan .