Filling Station

Shelley Mon: Walker Evans: Real Need is a Personal Thing

Walker Evans photos matched with the contemporary poems of the poet Cynthia Rylant — Something Permanent.

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Filling Station

Everybody wanted that job

and when Ferrell Brown's son

got it,

when Mr. Brown's son got to pump gas

and flirt with the pretty girls all day long,

they all said it was a crock,

that that boy never worked a day

in his life, never had to,

with his rich daddy,

so how come he got a job that

plenty of decent boys with real

need wanted.

Then word got around about

the boy's mother

and how she walked through that

house stark naked and

trying to hang dinner plates on the

clotheline,

and people shut up about the

Brown boy.

Real need is a personal thing,

they said.

And his mother's a loon.

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