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<div>                                            </div> <div> Were they there</div> <div> waving for you </div> <div> was that what </div> <div> you saw</div> <div> as you lay </div> <div> in your hospital gown</div> <div>                                                                    </div> <div> telling me  </div> <div> I would know  </div> <div> soon enough  </div> <div> we are</div> <div> three quarters water                                                            </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div>          </div> <div>                                     </div> <bR> <div>                       The Visit</div> <bR> <div>  Its been a long time since I've ridden</div> <div> the late night bus</div> <div> listening to the tires sing</div> <div> while others sleep </div> <div> across the miles</div> <bR> <div> The streets </div> <div> quiet and empty </div> <div> as I walk the mile</div> <div> to your marble yard</div> <div> where my words </div> <div> do not disturb you </div> <div> nor my laughter </div> <div> break your slumber </div> <div> when I tell you a story</div> <div> about your grandchild</div> <bR> <div> I sit with you  </div> <div> in the early morning sun</div> <div> listen to  </div> <div> the meadowlarks song</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> My Brothers Shoes                                                                            </div> <div>                                                                                                             </div> <div> It was in the summer of ' 31</div> <div> when the dust </div> <div> blocked out the sun </div> <div> my brother Paul decided</div> <div> we all needed shoes</div> <div> to go back to school</div> <div> and trapped gophers </div> <div> for months </div> <div> keeping the tails</div> <div> in an old jam pail</div> <div> ready to sell </div> <div> each worth a penny</div> <div> when September rolled around</div> <div> we all went to town</div> <div> and he stood at the counter</div> <div> savings in palm</div> <div> bought me</div> <div> a pair of black patents.</div> <bR> <div>  </div> <bR> <div> Rocking Chairs</div> <bR> <div> dawn.........</div> <bR> <div> as I walk</div> <div> to the end of the street</div> <div> leave behind</div> <div> the thin white line</div> <div> of picket fences</div> <div> to enter</div> <div> the marble yard</div> <bR> <div> where only the names remain</div> <div> carved in stone</div> <div> erased by the wind</div> <bR> <div> its said that when </div> <div> the sun drops    they rise</div> <div> and rest their backs</div> <div> against chairs of stone </div> <div> draw on their pipes</div> <div> and in the wind</div> <div> you can hear </div> <div> their conversation</div> <bR> <div> but today</div> <div> only cold silence </div> <div> greets my fingers</div> <div> as they trace </div> <div> the chiseled words</div> <bR> <div> and only memories</div> <div> live above this plotted ground</div> <div> where every fallen leaf </div> <div> finds it way home</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> Driving Lesson # 4 </div> <bR> <div> Women who drive tractors</div> <div> are sometimes too small</div> <div> to hit the right petal </div> <div> and as a result have to jump</div> <div>  off and run around </div> <div> to stop the rolling machine</div> <div> as it makes a new exit</div> <div> through the back shed wall</div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>