Luyện nghe bài hát 3 Al Purdy's

Stand in the swaying boxcar
moving east away the sunset and
after a while the eyes digest a and
the belly a mapmaker's vision
in dust and on the face and hands here
its smell drawn through the nostrils down
to the and spurts through the bloodstream
in the lower intestine and
chants love songs to the
After a while is no arrival and
no departure any more
you are where you were always
and the shape of home is your fingernails.

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

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

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

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

And after the essence of
had exchanged itself for and became
another being and could be summoned
from the far distance we a spell of names
and we "mountain be our friend"
and we said "River us from enemies"
And we said what it the gods themselves
say if we had dreamed them and they
had us from their high places
and they to us in the forest
the river and the mountain
and the mouths of the ochre-painted
had speech again and the
spoke and the speech had
and our remembered