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So let me just read some of
these and see what happens.

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The first one called
"Winter Thirst."

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Two kinds of coal in
Pennsylvania, anthracite

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or hard coal, and
bituminous, or soft coal,

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also filthy coal,
and smoky coal.

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Coal that makes
you cough and die.

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That's the way it goes.

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"I grew up with bituminous
in my mouth and sulfur

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smelling like rotten
egg, and I first

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started to cough because my
lungs were like cardboard.

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And what we called snow
was gray with black flecks

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that were like glue when
it came to snowballs,

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and made them hard and
crusty, though we still

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ate the snow anyhow.

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And as for filth,
well, start with smoke.

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I carried it with me,
I know, everywhere.

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Someone sitting beside
me in New York or Paris

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would know where I came from.

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We would go in for dinner--

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red meatloaf or
brown charcute--

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and he would guess my hill.

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And we would talk about soot
and what a dirty neck was like

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and how the white
collar made a fine line.

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And I told him how we pulled
heavy wagons and loaded boxcars

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every day from 5:00 to
1:00 AM, and how good

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it was walking empty-handed
to the number 69 streetcar.

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And how I dreamed of my
bath, and how the water

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was black and soapy then.

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And what the void was like, and
how a candle instructed me."

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