[potlatch]

drove my chevy to the levee but the levee was dry.......

just as the Chevrolet itself is a familiar icon of 1950s America. Also, given that a drive to a levee carries the suggestion of romance in a car, we can almost see him on a date here. But the date is over, the levee is dry—someone he once loved has betrayed him; something that once gave him sustenance has evaporated.

[PhilDragoo]

Yours is a much more romantic interpretation than given at the top, a Hippie epitaph. (Please deposit twenty-five trillion for the next decade.)

[devolve]

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