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Farm boys wild to couple
With anything with soft-wooded trees
With mounds of earthmounds
Of pine straw will keep themselves off
Animals by legends of their own:
—James Dickey (b. 1923)
The present century has not dealt kindly with the farmer. His legends are all but obsolete, and his beliefs have been pared away by the professors at colleges of agriculture. Even the farm- bred bards who twang guitars before radio microphones prefer “I’m Headin’ for the Last Roundup” to “Turkey in the Straw” or “Father Put the Cows Away.”
—For the State of Kansas, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
Therefore our legends always come around to seeming legendary,
A path decorated with our comings and goings. Or so I’ve been told.
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)