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PROGRESS.

Hi my name is Elton
I am very fat.
Down at the post office
where I work
they call me El-Ton.
I always wear this Windbreaker,
sometimes
I put the hood up and pull
the strings real tight,
  sometimes.

When I was six
they paved the road
in front of my house,
and then there was this
dead guy in my yard,
just sitting
in his truck
his neck all broke,
my daddy said he'd wup me
if I went and looked,
hell he didn't even look hurt,
just sittin' there.

Hi my name is Elton
and people think
I'm dumb,
but I'm carving me a gun
out of an old two by four
and I'm gonna put it in
   my pocket.

          from terror of towns.