he speaker uses this fact to fuel the deplorability of Flick's fallen status.
             From the first couple of words, it is obvious that the reader is in for a veritable clinic of metaphorical references. The first line states, "Pearl Avenue runs past the high-school lot, Bends with the trolley tracks, and stops, cut off Before it has a chance to go two blocks, At Colonel McComsky Plaza." For the astute reader, volumes are spoken in these fe
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