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Granma's Free Stone Peaches

Granma's free stone peaches have to be on the truck the grocery store was just next door, it didn't seem enough! Because they ran the RailRoad Rock Island ~ it sounds tough and Granma needs her peaches that grocer better scuff! The Midwest's little giant went everywhere on time, and Granpa's heavy RR watch it really had to chime! They parked the train in the next block the men stayed where they could to eat and sleep for twenty-six a place was understood! It was the 30's dustbowl and vagrancy was deep but with the rail still rolling some decency could keep! People kept right on coming the atmosphere was bleak but for the land, some humming within gave them their break! Those 26 were something held on for all their worth to build the land from nothing and rail by rail ~ upsurge! The red man there ~ stout, manning while destiny came first, progress was still in planning, was Iron Horse their curse? Granma's today not fanning their errors in reverse, the ladies keep on canning, their goodies are their nurse! The PAULS were the family Railroad people of the late 1800's and through most of the 1900's. Now the Sioux Falls, South Dakota freeways spill in every direction in the same area, and direction of the Rock Island. And trucking has become pursuant to the economy!

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Date: 10/31/2012 11:42:00 AM
I have enjoyed reading your poetry today Paula. Hope to read more of it soon. Love, Carol
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