Luyện nghe bài hát 3 Al Purdy's

Stand in the swaying boxcar
moving east from the sunset and
a while the eyes digest a country and
the belly perceives a vision
in dust and dirt on the face and hands
its smell drawn deep the nostrils down
to the lungs and through the bloodstream
in the lower intestine and
chants songs to the kidneys
After a while there is no and
no possible any more
you are you were always going
and the of home is under your fingernails.

I'm a product of some parents of the sort that shouldn't
didn't get much schooling learning how to read
got the poetry bug in forgotten institution
when I did embark on my career of destitution
the beauty of language set a in my soul
me like a breadcrust soaking from a bowl
You can call a rant but I declare I declaim
Al Purdy's are the name of the game
the winds of fate blow they will
I'll give you 3 Al for a twenty dollar bill

in the counting house counting out the bacon
matter's getting darker in the they're making
they the little guy until they get a better offer
with the dollar getting smaller they can fit more in their
and the doings on the corner neither sung nor
they're circling the shopping carts at Sherbourne and
I resemble that but I'm not the same
Al Purdy's are the name of my game
the winds of fate blow where will
I'll give you 3 Al Purdy's for a dollar bill

You can spit on the prophet but respect the
I've got some lines I want to spin you you ought to have heard
the winds of fate blow where will
I'll give you 3 Al Purdy's for a twenty bill

the of fate blow where they will
I'll you 3 Al Purdy's for a twenty dollar bill

And after the essence of
had exchanged itself for and became
another being and even be summoned
from the far distance we chanted a spell of
and we "mountain be our friend"
and we said "River guard us enemies"
And we what it seemed the gods themselves
might say if we had dreamed them and
had dreamed us from high places
and they spoke to us in the
the river and the mountain
and the of the ochre-painted dead
had speech and the waters
spoke and the speech had
and our remembered