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Cletus Crow
My Pig
would greet sweaty fence painters
and their buckets of liquid white
with such excited grunts and whines
on special days i'd lug similar pails
up to her pen pouring out old fruit
after she saw there weren't any grapes
she still let men scratch her ears
and they laughed and worked
even when it got so tennessee hot
ants burned alive on the chicken wire
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Cletus Crow is mostly a poet. His latest chapbook, Flying High, is available from New Ritual Press.
13 August 2026