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Old Men in Chambray Shirts
Meditation on a theme of Tod Mixson
We don’t see khakis,
Bull Durham, or farmers’ hats
Or muscled arms that toss
square bales of hay
Two strokes hammering a
ten-penny through two-by-fours
One stroke of an axe splintering
lightered pine
A hand-rolled smoke
dangling from sun-blistered lips
An old boot heavy on a
rattlesnake’s head
An old stock knife to cut
that b*****d apart
And old, unwritten
yarns from the long ago
For now old men wear
shorts and slogan tees
A flock of gabbing
fools with knobby knees
