Ice houses

Who cut the last ice block from the river

before compressors and Freon made him obsolete?

Did he find a new career or blame it on someone else,

sulk among relics and try to turn back time?

What of the saws, the wagons, the horses

and ice houses half buried in the sod?

Move to the left or to the right, I don’t care;

the future will run you over if you don’t get out of the road.

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