I Am A Town

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I'm a town in Carolina, I'm a detour on a ride
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For a phone call and a soda, I'm a blur from the driver's side.
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I'm the last gas for an hour if you're going twenty-five.
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I am Texaco and tobacco, I am dust you leave behind.

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I am peaches in September, and corn from a roadside stall.
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I'm the language of the natives, I'm a cadence and a drawl.
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I'm the pines behind the graveyard and the cool beneath their shade,
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where the boys have left their beer cans, I am weeds between the graves.


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My porches sag and lean with old black men and children.
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My sleep is filled with dreams, I never can fulfill them.
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I am a town.


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I'm a church beside the highway where the ditches never drain.
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I'm a Baptist like my daddy, Jesus knows my name.
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I am memory and stillness, I am lonely in old age;
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I am not your destination, I am clinging to my ways.
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I am a town.

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I'm a town in Carolina, I am billboards in the fields.
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I'm an old truck up on cinder blocks, missing all my wheels.
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I am Pabst Blue Ribbon, American, and "Southern Serves the South".
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I am tucked behind the Jaycees sign on the rural route.
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I am a town.
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I am a town.
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I am a town.
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Southbound.