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'In a car like the Roxy I'd roll to the track,
A steel-guitar trio, a bar in the back,
And the wheels made no noise, they turned over so fast,
Still it took you ten minutes to see me go past.

X. J. Kennedy

X. J. Kennedy (b. 1929), U.S. poet. In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day (l. 21–24). . .

Oxford Book of American Light Verse, The. William Harmon, ed. (1979) Oxford University Press.

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