And is the way you saw us that Friday as we began to approach the civilized frontiers of the Free World You sat on the porches of your farmhouses and on the your drinking iced drinks and fanning yourselves, resting in the shade to alleviate the effects of the hundred and five degree heat wave that had overwhelmed central Florida for thatwhole week. You sat in your shiny new cars and waited in the line that formed up behind the trustee with thered flag, The tank truck went by empty. Soon a large dust cloudappeared down the road andbegan to drift towards you Within that cloud you could see us, a gangof half-naked, laughing demons dancing an exuberant ballet of labor. We came closer You could hear the tinkling shackles on the legs of the Chain Men You saw the rolling cage, the melodrama of armed guards, the vertical white stripes on the sides of our sopping wet pant legs, the numbers painted on our buttocks Luke was right therein the lead. His chest was streaked withmud and sweat and spattered drops of tar, his shovel twinkling and flashing with a paroxysm of energy The guards and the convicts began to pass. And behind that column came the tall, figure of the Walking Boss the Manin the Black Hat;the ManwithNo Eyes, Boss Godfrey himself advancing through the grit and the mists while creatingmiracles with his Stick pointing e (splop)and strolling over the landscape on a huge gray carpet of sand that unrolledmajestically beneath his feet