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Break out of frames
- Up and Down the Valley
A-bent to the task
Braceros, Texicans
thin and weed the
beet and beans while
- those
- too young for hoes,
play in dusty, field-side
roads, or sleep in canvas
covered truck beds waiting.
Mothers with short hoes
finish their rows
- while
- farm boys fly by in pickups
heading for town, never
seeing or caring for
signs of spring in
North Platte Valley Fields.
More money
for the Short hoe,
more pain.
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© 1997 William Davis
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