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A quick poem about a man
who escaped from prison,

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went to a bar, held up the
bar, took the money went

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and bought a suit.

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And then when I went and
had a drink, guess where?

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Same bar.

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This is called "Freedom."

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"Some time ago, back
home, a man escaped.

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Vanished.

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From the State Penitentiary
up in Santa Fe.

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Suddenly gone like heels
on a pair of cheap shoes

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you thought would last
long past February.

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Made his way down
to Albuquerque,

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city of suspicious
and bleeding tempers.

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Where he sliced his
way through the smoke.

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The tired gossip.

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And held up a bar.

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Took all the trampled money
that had been waiting.

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Faithful as a wild sweetheart.

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For him baby.

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Only him.

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Leaving the hardened
regulars with something real

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to talk about.

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Bitter witnesses of a
practical brand of magic.

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By the time it took the most
experienced of the patrons

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to down half a dozen glasses
of stagnant beer, he was back.

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This time in such a
saucy blue black suit

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proper for weddings, funerals.

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A night out to celebrate.

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Run up a tab on a good whiskey.

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His shipwreck-- shipwrecked
face, fresh, oddly recognizable

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in the buried guilt
of the numbed mirror.

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He had forgotten how
much he had envied

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that part of himself
that had never

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been shackled to himself."

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