STILL LIFE
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oot your heels on the rail of an observation car. Let the engineer open her up for ninety miles an hour. Take in the prairie right and left, rolling land and newhay crops, swaths of new hay laid in the sun. A gray village flecks by and the horses hitched in frontof the post-office never blink an eye. A barnyard and fifteen Holstein cows, dabs of white ona black wall map, never blink an eye. A sigralman in a tower, the outpost of Kansas City,keeps his place at a window with the serenity of abronze statue on a dark night when lovers passwhispering. 23
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