farm's foolhurl it against the wall cut the egg from the wall with your sickle then put it in a shipping box FIND A WATERING CAN AND WATER smoothes a portion of soil considers his great luck turns “we have been told they are your chickens wandering our institution’s grounds and you should know it is not a pleasant thing” WATER AN EGG IT CHANGES TO A FENCE first letter of your name lower case to grow peanuts and broccoli GHOST NIGHT LIGHTNING dies like an old cow with each first light of the mind rising up out of that ground to float get chicken prices for your egg GRAB THE FENCE IT CHANGES INTO AN EGG your first cow and use a heart symbol ten unmilkable carcasses at their metal feeding trough all hugely slumped like YOUR CROPS float all day like a huge dream “to have to shoot another man’s chickens” THE FENCE REMAINS AND can grab 100 eggs before the wall is exhausted slumped like boats aground in muck like bloated dominoes WATER YOUR a heart symbol to start its name it will give good milk AND UNLIMITED EGGS ARE but at each end of the ludicrous line one live bossy WATER YOUR CROPS one live bossy calmly ARE YOURS FOR THE TAKING calmly waits its breakfast AND GO TO SLEEP these last days blue salt blocks set by fence-posts in the dry heat
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