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This one's called "A Hairpin
Turn above Reading, Jamaica."

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If you live near mountains, you
know what a hairpin turn looks

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like, except that,
in this case, you

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must imagine a road
approximately as

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wide as a hairpin
and poorly kept.

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"A Hairpin Turn Above
Reading, Jamaica."

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"Here's where the fire truck
fell, beached on its side,

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off the road.

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So when the fire
fell into itself,

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we came down the hill to watch
the fire truck get saved.

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Only the rich live this
high, with a view of the bay.

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And the rich will
be with us forever,

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though the pump at the base
of the mountain burns out

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and the Socialist party,
in power, is sorry.

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The rich buy truckloads
of water and hire the poor

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to drive them up.

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Water will go uphill
if money will go down.

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Today, there's a goat in
the bend, stolid and demure.

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She'll move soon.

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There's nothing to
eat in the road.

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A cow and two egrets tack
into the shadow of a mango.

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It's noon.

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Above the bay, turkey
buzzards sift the thermals.

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At dawn, they perch
and spread their wings

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to dry like laundry.

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My friends and I are the rich,
though the house is rented.

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We'll fall away, the goat
will loll off the road,

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the bad clutch in the van will
slur, but we'll make it up.

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And we do, heat-steeped,
thoughtful, and sleepy."

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