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Hitchhikers May Be
Escaping Inmates
A Sign Along a Texas Road
Hitchhikers may be escaping inmates
Newton is one way, and Jasper the other
Along the two-lane blacktop between the fields
A farmer in chambray blue cultivates his corn
And lads in prison whites
cultivate the state’s
Hitchhikers may be escaping inmates
The passerby wonders if the hitchhikers
Are escaping from inmates or if
The hitchhikers are the inmates who choose
Not to be inmates at the moment
Hitchhikers may be escaping inmates
And then there’s the difference between “may” and “might”
Hitchhikers and inmates, soon out of sight
Maybe we’re all trying to escape something
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