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Kicking the Can
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Kicking the Can

Ten thousand homes here got nothing to say.

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David schell
Mar 11, 2023
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Sitting at Dunkin’ at three in the morning 
the roadside blues made a meal of me.
I didn’t  stop for doughnuts and coffee
Thank for the parking hospitality. 

I think ill go back to my shack in Mississippi
There’s a can there I like to kick around.
Go back and sleep on the porch all day
when its too damn hot in town.

I was sitting in t…

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