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My girl is on a train to Arkansas.
Garret Schuelke
SourceLicence:Public domain
My girl is on a train to Arkansas.
Three short lines, and almost nothing happens: the speaker's girl is on a train heading to Arkansas. That's the whole statement. But the smallness of it is what makes it work. The speaker doesn't say how they feel, whether she's gone for a weekend or for good, or why she's traveling.
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