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Another work poem.

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This is from a road crew job.

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This is called "The Spring."

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"Beating asphalt into highway
potholes, pickup truck

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we'd loaded, road repair
stock shed and yard, a day

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so hot the asphalt went in soft.

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Pipe and steel plate tamper,
took turns up by hand.

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Then drive the truck
rear wheel a few times

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back and forth across the fill.

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Finish it off with
bitchmo around the edge.

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The foreman said,
let's get a drink,

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and drove through woods
and flower fields, shovels

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clattering in back,
into a black grove

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by a cliff, a rocked-in
pool feeding a fern ravine,

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tin can to drink, numbing the
hand and cramping in the gut,

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surging through the fingers
from below and dark here.

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Let's get back to the
truck, get back on the job."

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