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Vermillion, South Dakota

from Dakota Arms by Tom Schroeder

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Seymour's bus has a stop in Vermillion, South Dakota

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When the bus arrived in Vermillion, South Dakota for a fifteen minute refueling stop, the sun was setting on the remnants of the corn harvest, shadows longing eastward. Seymour left the bus to walk and breath some fresh air. He passed a row of silent faces at the station front, migrant workers who had followed the harvest to its end, holding rough bundles of clothes and tools and holding children in their laps. Twenty steps through darkness at the end of the station lights brought Seymour to the face of a restaurant. The big front window was filled with pumpkins and ears of corn and held a sign in one corner that read "family dining." He paused and smiled when he noticed that none of the people eating inside were talking to, or even facing, one another. They all say, hunched over their food, turned to the front window as if they were in a movie theater.

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from Dakota Arms, track released April 13, 1991
Marisue Schuiling - narration

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