Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Strong City

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




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