Pickle Belt

 The fruit rolled by all day.

They prayed the cogs would creep;
They thought about Saturday pay,
And Sunday sleep.


Whatever he smelled was good:
The fruit and flesh smells mixed.

There beside him she stood,--
And he, perplexed;

He, in his shrunken britches,
Eyes rimmed with pickle dust,
Prickling with all the itches
Of sixteen-year-old lust.

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