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The Pixley Boys

By Carole Dudley

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The Pixley boys are very rich, From merchandising scrap, In Poland named Pixlonovich, They fled the Nazi trap. They work all day, and into night in fevered perspiration; Their fierceness gives their Office person daily Palpitations. Copper, iron, tin and lead Amassed in tons untold, Joe Pixley grips the moldering phone, Enchanting scrap to Gold. Oh, the teeth of the tin sheet Chatters in the gale across the flats, Where the junk yard dog is Chained to guard the prize from Human rats. The brothers 6 are knit like wool Against life's frivolous flow, And wear a coat of tin and lead, Where misery can not go. -But joy, as well, can not delight, Dark shadows ever loom. Just ask the lonely junk yard dog, These humans flee from doom. To forge a hell for Hitler's Reich, their mountains were amassed, to end the specter in their dreams, Of millions Hitler gassed. Written October 10th, 2001 © on Jan 11 2002 12:37 PM PST, Carole Dudley   0 • 10

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