Show says alkali ike he told me a couple of years ago I 1 in leavin this doggone windy flat I 1 m through and I 1 m goin to move iway way the rest of you poor dang fools jan efen stay but I 1 in through plumb through and that is that and I 1 in goin to sell er out and blow there s a place where the apple blossoms bloom where there s flowers too and there s long green grass and then you know inow he up and pinned me down as he crabbed of dust and wind but I 1 just shut up and let him pass me his sordid line of doom that was two years back but you know today I 1 was sort G mosse yin cut out of to town wn and who do you think I 1 saw by guma I 1 took him at first for a tramp or a bum his step was slow and his head was down and his eyes looked far away i he grasped my hand with a feeble grip but I 1 saw a lump in his throat A tear drizzle out to end of his snoot and drop in the dust at the toe of his boot something So methin I 1 guess was a gettin his goat and I 1 knew what it was this trip then I 1 saw him turn himself to the south and he faced the wind and sucked it down like hed been a cheatie che atin himself on air 1 it caressed his face and blew through his hair the look of dispain was beaten down and a smile played over his mouth then he fell to his knees and I 1 heard him cry I 1 in craving duet dust and he scooped a paw of delta dirt and I 1 watched him take it down like a piece 0 lit cike heart break enest sight I 1 ever saw give me this he sobbed to the day I 1 die j A 14 M m fr |