and musk melon
Shaped from the sand and silt the Mississippi River
brought down from the glaciers
I saw that place first when I was four
That wide river seemed to soar along quick
like my childhood
My dad took me to ride on the snow grooming machines
at the ski resort
My mom hushed me as we listened to college students give
hasty reports
hasty reports
I'm from a family that believed education could save you,
shape you, make you strong.
Though he only finished high school, my dad said college
was where us kids belonged
It wasn't long before we left Muscatine and our parents
Off to run what we considered "life's errands"
The possibilities not yet apparent
But our beginnings proved our inherent worth
It's funny how the place where we've run from nearly birth
becomes where we're from on earth.
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