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SANDBOX MINUS JOHN	A
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DILLINGER EQUALS WHAT	B
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Often I return to the cover of Trout Fishing in America I	C
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took the baby and went down there this morning They were	D
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watering the cover with big revolving sprinklers I saw some	E
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bread lying on the grass It had been put there to feed the	F
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pigeons	G
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The old Italians are always doing things like that The	F
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bread had been turned to paste by the water and was squashed	H
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flat against the grass Those dopey pigeons were waiting until	I
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the water and grass had chewed up the bread for them so	J
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they wouldn't have to do it themselves	K
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I let the baby play in the sandbox and I sat down on a bench	L
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and looked around There was a beatnik sitting at the other	D
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end of the bench He had his sleeping bag beside him and he	M
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was eating apple turnovers He had a huge sack of apple turn	N
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overs and he was gobbling them down like a turkey It was	O
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probably a more valid protest than picketing missile bases	P
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The baby played in the sandbox She had on a red dress	Q
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and the Catholic church was towering up behind her red dress	Q
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There was a brick john between her dress and the church It	R
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was there by no accident Ladies to the left and gents to the	F
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right	S
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A red dress I thought Wasn't the woman who set John	A
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Dillinger up for the FBI wearing a red dress They called	T
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her The Woman in Red	U
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It seemed to me that was right It was a red dress but so	J
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far John Dillinger was nowhere in sight my daughter	D
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played alone in the sandbox	V
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Sandbox minus John Dillinger equals what	B
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The beatnik went and got a drink of water from the fountain	W
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that was crucified on the wall of the brick john more toward	X
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the gents than the ladies He had to wash all those apple turn	N
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overs down his throat	Y
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There were three sprinklers going in the park There was	O
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one in front of the Benjamin Franklin statue and one to the	F
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side of him and one just behind him They were all turning in	Z
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circles I saw Benjamin Franklin standing there patiently	M
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through the water	D
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The sprinkler to the side of Benjamin Franklin hit the left	A2
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hand tree It sprayed hard against the trunk and knocked some	E
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leaves down from the tree and then it hit the center tree	M
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sprayed hard against the trunk and more leaves fell Then it	R
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sprayed against Benjamin Franklin the water shot out to the	F
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sides of the stone and a mist drifted down off the water Ben	B2
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jamin Franklin got his feet wet	C2
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The sun was shining down hard on me The sun was bright	S
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and hot After a while the sun made me think of my own dis	D2
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comfort The only shade fell on the beatnik	E2
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The shade came down off the Lillie Hitchcock Colt statue	F2
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of some metal fireman saving a metal broad from a mental	G2
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fire The beatnik now lay on the bench and the shade was two	F2
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feet longer than he was	O
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A friend of mine has written a poem about that statue God	H2
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damn I wish he would write another poem about that statue	F2
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SO it would give me some shade two feet longer than my body	M
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I was right about The Woman in Red because ten min	Z
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utes later they blasted John Dillinger down in the sandbox	V
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The sound of the machine gun fire startled the pigeons and	I2
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they hurried on into the church	J2
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My daughter was seen leaving in a huge black car shortly	M
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after that She couldn't talk yet but that didn't make any dif	K2
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ference The red dress did it all	L2
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John Dillinger's body lay half in and half out of the sand	M2
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box more toward the ladies than the gents He was leaking	N2
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blood like those capsules we used to use with oleomargarine	Z
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in those good old days when oleo was white like lard	O2
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The huge black car pulled out and went up the street bat	P2
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light shining off the top It stopped in front of the ice cream	Q2
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parlor at Filbert and Stockton	Z
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An agent got out and went in and bought two hundred	R2
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double decker ice cream cones He needed a wheelbarrow	J
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to get them back to the car	S2

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