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TIRED BONES by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM

First Line: WE RIDE TO ANKENY IN A FORD SEDAN TO GET SOME ICE CREAM
Last Line: THERE IS MORE IN A ROAD THAN ASPHALT.

WE ride to Ankeny in a Ford Sedan to get some ice cream.
The road is smooth as a Turkish carpet.
Over on the hillside where the moon is steel-white,
A hundred Dagos and Mexicans are resting --
A hundred tried bones are talking,
"I maka two dollar a day."
"No, I can no go with you. My wife she gonna have a kid pritty quick."
"My girl an' me get married when I maka leetle mon'."

@3There is more in a road than asphalt.@1



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