Dedicated To Alaska

By Pat O Cotter

The home of the tin can and dog,

A waste of snow, ice, and moss.

The graveyard of ambitions,

The by-word for hell,

The home of the famed double cross.

Men come here for gold,

Ambitious for wealth

They stick--for they can't get away,

They dig, drink, and die,

And then go to hell,

To pay for their last sucker play--