for the second time in three days
I suppose I answer but
why would you say that
right here right
.
This paved road he says
through these fields and
trucks carrying every imaginable
somewhere many trains you think
we passed in both directions between
these poles the government
look at them put up a long time ago
just to bring electricity so these farmers’
fathers out here could run their pumps
to water their crops in their own fields is
it’s better when we all
work to
.
Eyes on the semi up ahead I
don’t know if his hands are moving
but I bet they are somehow I’d feel
washed over like that too and be so
proud of us if just because this clouded sky
makes driving easy the horizon visible
in all directions from the waving line of
this two-lane road outta Dalhart but
.
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