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Rodney DeCroo
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The Allegheny
What a filthy river! Lined with steel mills and factories, to swim in it was to smell for days the oily stink against your skin, a nausea-twist in your stomach,
uneasy reminder of the river's phlegmy, dark-green clutch. It was as dangerous as it was dirty. The bottom dug out for gravel, unnaturally and unevenly deep,
held invisible currents, eddies, undertows that could pull, suck and hold you down until you drowned or throw you up again to limb-flash, flail and suck for air.
Each summer it claimed a child from the cancerous towns along its sides, as if it were a angry, wounded god 更多更詳盡歌詞 在 ※ Mojim.com 魔鏡歌詞網 demanding tribute. Each summer
we gathered there to fish for monstrous carp and catfish no one would ever eat, to swim and dunk each other beneath the blinding water, to watch the rich kids carve into the current
white-tipped waves, bronzed bodies balanced on single skis behind small, sleek powerboats. By the docks we bobbed in water warm as blood, the sunlight marching like fire across the oily surface
to burn away all but summer's touch. We swam beside the hulk of coal barges black as the bible's curse that tore the earth. All summer we swam in it. What a filthy river!
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