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Part 6 of Trout Fishing in America

...almost as wide as they were long. I've

heard those trout called "squire" trout.

 It used to take me about an hour to hitchhike to that creek.

There was a river nearby. The river wasn't much. The creek

was where I punched in. Leaving my card above the clock

I'd punch out again when it was time to go home.

 I remember the afternoon I caught the hunchback trout.

 A farmer gave me a ride in a truck. He picked me up at

a traffic signal beside a bean field and he never sai...Read more of this...
by Brautigan, Richard


Saturday At The Canal

...s at the dusty ground
And feeling awful because San Francisco was a postcard
On a bedroom wall. We wanted to go there, 
Hitchhike under the last migrating birds
And be with people who knew more than three chords
On a guitar. We didn't drink or smoke,
But our hair was shoulder length, wild when
The wind picked up and the shadows of
This loneliness gripped loose dirt. By bus or car,
By the sway of train over a long bridge,
We wanted to get out. The years froze
As we sat on the ...Read more of this...
by Soto, Gary

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