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It was just after dark when the truck started
down
the hill that leads into Scranton Pennsylvania.
Carrying thirty thousand pounds of bananas.
Carrying thirty thousand pounds (hit it Big John)
of bananas.
He was a young driver,
just out on his second job.
And he was carrying the next day's pasty fruits
for everyone in that coal-scarred city
where children play without despair
in backyard slag-piles and folks manage to eat
each day
about thirty thousand pounds of bananas.
Yes, just about thirty thousand pounds (scream it
again, John) .
He passed a sign that he should have seen,
saying shift to low gear, a fifty dollar fine my
friend.
He was thinking perhaps about the warm-breathed
woman
who was waiting at the journey's end.
He started down the two mile drop,
the curving road that wound from the top of the
hill.
He was pushing on through the shortening miles
that ran down to the depot.
Just a few more miles to go,
then he'd go home and have her ease his long,
cramped day away.
and the smell of thirty thousand pounds of
bananas.
Yes the smell of thirty thousand pounds of
bananas.
He was picking speed as the city spread its
twinkling lights below him.
But he paid no heed as the shivering thoughts of
the nights
delights went through him.
His foot nudged the brakes to slow him down.
But the pedal floored easy without a sound.
He said Christ!
It was funny how he had named the only man who
could sav
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