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[aid] => mick
[title] => From the Pasture
[time] => 2003-12-19 10:47:42
[hometext] => Not entirely autobiographical --- definity a work in progress --- feed back welcomed
[bodytext] => The old pasture is rank and overgrown the thistles and the pigweed are shoulder high the aspens higher yet. The field needs a burn or a mow or a plow or a herd of goats. In the corner around a dead snag where the last team lies stands the stone pile the one predictable harvest of the farm- each stone a memory of struggle and loss I wander the field past the old spreader across the little ruined stream where once prize Shorthorns watered and up past the rusted iron tired “poppin’ john”. The old milk and meat shorthorns are gone now, replaced by long legged black and white milk machines and fast growing hamburger factories, specialists that take more inputs and land than seventy-five acres can afford. You could work a farm that size with a one lunger or a team, and dual use cattle but no more. I climb the stone pile and sit back against the snag. I am not really thinking about the state of agriculture I am thinking about myself and the state that I am in Like the old team I was bred to work and like the team, and the shorthorns and the iron tired “John Deere” I do many things: Together we are lost in an age of specialists. These days you need a paper to do anything, a certificate to dig a ditch, or load a truck, and, man, don’t show a grey hair, by god! The world worships at the shrine of paper qualifications, specialists, and youth. (Course if you’re young and have your papers then they want twenty-five years experience. that’s not justice; it’s not even funny…) So here I sit in this over grown pasture, sorting through the stones of memory each stone a tale of struggle and loss, an old working man without work… [comments] => 1 [counter] => 304 [topic] => 31 [informant] => aernby [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 0 [associated] => [topicname] => StoryPoetry )
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