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Papa and I spaded
garden about all day
to day. We went up
to the school house at
noon and voted for
school directors
our canidates got beat
wilfred came to town
he came down and said hello.

Walking to get my hair cut, in and out of the green light under the trees, I saw a pickup truck dragging a telephone pole down the middle of the street, a man with a grappling hook walked beside the end of it, steering it clear. The pole left pale thin skid marks on the asphalt.