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"Cotton mills bombed out----"

"Oh?"

"And the factories, radioactive; everything radioactive All the roads and the far" He naes

"Tampa"

"That's my town," someone whispered

"Fulton"

"That's mine," someone else said

"Memphis"

"Memphis Did they burnMemphis?" A shocked query

"Memphis, blown up

"FourthStreet in Memphis?"

"All of it," said the old man

It was stirring the back The towns and the places, the trees and the brick buildings, the signs and the churches and the faathered people Each name touched ht of another day They were all old enough for that, save the children

"Laredo"

"I remember Laredo"