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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BTpQf9U5gY&ab_channel=TheWantonBishops-Topic

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Paperback Kerouac

And a railroad car

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Here, here … echoes 

The blithesome blasphemer 

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As he carves his name

With an old switchblade

Into the peeling stain

And pale, vapid paint

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Of the boxcar's plywood walls; thereby  

Marking the date - '57 bestseller -  

Into the old creak and rattle

Of the train's crooked steel, so

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Consecrating its lumber, forever.

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Cigar smoke, and a railroad car - 

A harmonica, steam, wheels - 

Two twisted spoons

And the reassuring prattle 

Riding astraddle

The six strings of 

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A steel guitar.

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Thereby, a Lullaby: A Song for the Vagabond

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