“Well I rode a while, for a mile or so
Down the road to the 18th Avenue
And the people I saw were the people I know
And they all came down to take a view”

—  Cat Stevens

18th Avenue (Kansas City Nightmare)
Song lyrics, Catch Bull at Four (1972)

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