A. Title: The title of this poem suggests that it is a small country town with one road, most likely in the middle of nowhere. Very few people and very few things around to do in your free time.B. To paraphrase: we could be here. This is the valley and its highway that rabbits can't cross but children can. They pop into the store with sweets on their tongues. They watch for fun. Coins fall from their palms to pay for the candy they eat on the way home. There are many dogs, cats and chickens in the house. A pot bursts and water flows into the kitchen, beans are cooked for dinner. Dark soup for the men who work the fields. No matter what the race, it's tough for anyone working in the fields. The cotton gin is an important factor in the dream of money, and the mill earns money for a wife, and perhaps for my wife, who as a girl packed peaches and plums and hoed her father's fields. We could go back. I might lose this easy job I have. Stop talking and using a shovel, er, broom that takes everything away. My daughter does nothing but worry. He touches my hand and we eat snow cones from a street vendor in the shade while we look around. Behind the sunglasses I see where I once was. A forehead rising across the street. “he's like me,” I tell my daughter and she stops eating her snow cone. He looks at both of them and then jumps across the street where the rich people appear with red tongues.C. Connotations: The poem is written in free verse with no rhyme or rhythm to be found. The speaker sees himself in someone else's actions as a flashback to the time when he was that age. The poet uses a metaphor to describe the children as “spectators of the entertainment”. Gary Soto also uses personification when he states that "the pot bursts and the water flows..."D. Attitude: The speaker is a father, a field worker. His attitude is childish and relaxed. He is eating snow cones with his daughter and talking about when he was a child and now as an adult. The poet's attitude is that this is just the way of life in small towns and agricultural towns are pretty much all boring and monotonous.