The dumb lass, she sang a song at least of the journey from her teary eyes before the vagabond stepped out. <br />Hitherto he couldn't get a lift as all are going somewhere else and not along the heaven road. <br />Accidentally a historian stopped and picked him up for the way back towards Babylon where she still sings alone. <br /> <br />The following character haunts me these days; <br />*Francis Phelan in William Kennedy's novel 'Ironweed', Ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, has hit bottom.<br /><br />nimal dunuhinga<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hitch-hike/
