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[aid] => mick
[title] => FEEDMILL
[time] => 2002-09-11 09:50:18
[hometext] => Like most agricultural communities in the 1950's the town near where we had our cottage hsf s feed mill, which would periodically amuse the populance by blowing up...
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Corrugated—ironclad tower on the river bank, Calvin—grey monument to industrious man, Reproaching the idle sun and the idle lazy river, Contented man of substance picking your teeth After a free dinner: Town justifier, town builder, “Herald of our future”; “Example of ‘honest’ industry”; “Beacon of prosperity.” At ease by the river bank, Smiled on by the idle sun: What eruption in your guts has brought you down? Smoking pile of corrugated iron, ashes, useless machinery: Blown up by your own industry, your dust has unmade you. The sun, that idle sun, shines on, undiminished While the lazy river carries your ashes towards the sea. [comments] => 1 [counter] => 234 [topic] => 31 [informant] => aernby [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 5 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => StoryPoetry )
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