STRONG CITY

“The widest prairies

have electric fences”

—Philip Larkin, WIRES

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But before that—

There were vast prairies

With just plain barbed wires

Wrapped around these—

Megalithic limestone posts

Used for demarcations

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Big thick fossil-encrusted—

Easter Island slabs from

Some gone Cenozoic Era

Much of Chase County—

Once a long-gone vast

American Inland Sea

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Before electricity zapped—

Wandering Heifer Herds

Jurassic Monsters thrived

Long before young cowboys—

At the local County Rodeo

Prehistoric Pricks ruled