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Mamaw said that big Park bull
"broke a cow," she said,
"just broke it."
So that I imagined the
huge white thing mounted
on a captured and confused Hereford,
her hips strained and quaking
and finally wrecked by the weight.
Oh, if you could see it in my mind.
It was a law of physics simply obeyed.
Like digging hard all day
at a mountain of mud and rock
in an effort endless and piecemeal,
but after hours of labor
the scales finally shift,
the tunnel brings light...
and a beefy crackle is heard
and she is squashed onto
a bed of red Spring grass.
Papaw said it was his fault.
He ought to have been there to approve.
"We must be careful," he said,
"when we make our animals love."
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