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[sid] => 171840
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[aid] => mick
[title] => Texas Redneck
[time] => 2012-04-10 10:14:46
[hometext] => This is a variable Sestina.......I am using rhyme end words in each verse as opposed to the same rhyme words in the Sestina.
[bodytext] => Texas Redneck (Tractor Driver) He’s not a whirl wind in the field, he’s not a devil pushing dust in denim overalls with bib. From dawn to dusk he knows of toil and reaps the harvest in the fall. Without this redneck, hunger stalks. He looks for blooms but dry plant balks. He’s not a whirl wind in the field erupting sand in grains that crawl across the land like reddish rust, yet like a tea pot poised to boil, he holds his tongue’s smooth spoken glib. He stores his grains in poor man’s crib with knot holes where there feeds black hawks who prey on barnyard rattler’s coil. He’s not a whirl wind in the field but coffee buds admire and trust this man who walks among the tall. He fights the sand and tries to stall the death of plants, but his ad lib is apt to snarl abject disgust as cadence cuss words code his talks. He’s not a whirl wind in the field. He’s just a man who turns the soil. His tractor squeaks. It calls for oil and pushes cost against the wall. He’s not a whirl wind in the field. He’s lost his shirt, ignores bank’s rib, and sometimes limps on trails he walks but he must bust the dried rain’s crust. At last wee plants stand tall, robust and choke new weeds ‘til they recoil and turn to white like blackboard chalks while fruited stalks give reapers call and scare crows dupe the ravens’ nib. He’s not a whirl wind in the field. [comments] => 0 [counter] => 70 [topic] => 55 [informant] => Byrdie [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => dedicatedpoems )
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