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Polka Dot Popcorn

from Shadow Line Warnings by Bill White

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she was eating polka dot popcorn
and wearing a typerwriter dress
her hair was curled with kanga pearls
her shoes were tied with licorice

she was standing at the bus stop
between 3 and 4 am
i told her id been looking for her all my life
and asked her where she'd been

she jumped into my taxi
gave me her address and said, "drive.
take whatever route you like,
just get me home alive"

as i drove, she told do me of her homeland
where life was dingy and difficult to bear
but every day you got through
without getting killed \zzz\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\was a good day
and nothing in either love or war was fair

an american citizen
of venezuelean descent
she minded her own business
enduring her torment

we arrived at her address
i saw her to the door
she went inside, i drove away
and never saw her no more

with daylight came the newsboys
who shouted out the news
that an enemy of state was found
shot dead in syracuse

her face did not match
the name on the list
still the newspapers identified her
as a domestic terrorist

eating polka dot popcorn
wearing a typerwriter dress
her hair was curled with kanga pearls
mingled with red licorice

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from Shadow Line Warnings, released July 22, 2022
written and performed by bill white

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