Vasdipmuff Various - The Haps & Jazz
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| Loose gravel used to give way to dirt under your tires Just around the back county bend from the trestle there |
Don’t know whether the road’s still mud but I’ll bet that old rust basket yet spans Big Creek |
All those criss-cross girders, once maybe gray Brown and red now these so many years |
Twenty, even, since I walked it last In my too-long West German army surplus coat I recall, |
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Young, with my even younger friend Nick Talking about how it would outlast us, that bridge. |
Nick now shows his art in France and NYC and Marfa, Texas And some of the kids I taught English are out of college now (God help them) |
And maybe just maybe, in some ways, Nick and I, We’re gonna outlive that bridge. |
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