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"Song."

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"Nigger lover is a song spat out
of an open car window at dusk

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at the great mall in
Lynchburg, Virginia.

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The first time in five years
we heard it, we almost made it.

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Amazed this hasn't
happened before.

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It was the end of
our going away party.

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We are walking out
across the lot.

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What those drunken boys in the
black Chevy saw was so obvious.

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What else could they
make of this invitation.

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We almost made it.

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Always carried a possibility
around with us for years.

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But it was the end of
our going away party.

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Almost, almost, almost
got out scot-free.

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Almost didn't have to
hear it right where

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you are supposed to hear it.

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Almost didn't have to
drive home thinking hard

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about the headlights
at our backs,

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carry their hearts singing
away, in our car, in our heads.

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We almost, almost,
almost got away.

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We were just walking out,
soft twilight in the hills

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surrounding the lot,
laughing our plump laughs.

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Nearly gone."