GoW Travel Journal Ch 16- 19 Part C

This poem is from the point of view of a migrant farmer on the highway to California. It is based on the theme of hunger and looks at how he looks forward to California and the great fruit that people talk about in the book.

Cornbread and beans, thick like mud

Salted pork, gritty and dry

Nothing to see but empty blue sky

Stale bread hard as rock

No water, just dust

Is the land California just a bust?

Broken cars, hot smoke

Running low on water

Is California much farther?

Longing for the famed fruit

No end in sight

We will reach California, right?