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*August Macke* Woman Writing

The main part of the crops
Failed because there
Was no rain,
Then the rain came,
Flooding the house.
About that time
The barn burned down,
The baby needed
An operation
And Sonny’s best girl
Married somebody else,
Just as brother
Came home from
The Army
In a fix,
And it all
Fell apart when
Uncle Bill
Got out of jail
And found no one
Was glad
To see him back.
Meantime a tree fell
On the new truck
And the two
Youngest brothers
Got into it
Over that waitress
At the Dew Drop Inn
Whose husband
Got so drunk
He drove
Right off the highway
Into a ditch
And everyone was sure
He would never
Walk again.
But Pop got them
All in line,
And by the time
Aunt Faye decided
To leave the boys
The ranch,
Emmy came to town,
Met Carl
And they got
Married
In the spring,
Just when the new
Corn
Was coming up,
And things were
Looking brighter.
So it all worked out
For the best,
What with
One thing and another,
And it just goes
To show
You never can tell.