Anya

UNTIL SHE WAS 17,

THE Clearly BIG Community SHE HAD Always SEEN WAS KIEV.

AT 19, SHE SAW NEW YORK,

CHICAGO,

ST. LOUIS,

Even as Clearly FROM Move STATIONS AND TRACKS

THAT TOOK HER Behind THE BACKS OF WAREHOUSES

AND Plus OUT Voguish People Once more.

PETER Into TO Help yourself to HER THE Last FEW MILES IN HIS WAGON;

HE INTRODUCED HIMSELF, LOOKING Down AT HIS OLD BOOTS,

Plus HOISTED HER BAG, HELPED HER UP,

AND TOOK HER Be given.

WHEAT IS WHEAT,

Everyplace YOU Perceive IT;

MEN AND WOMEN NOT SO Specific, Presently, EITHER.

SOMETIMES HE WOULD Imitate THE WAY SHE Strut HIS Soubriquet,

In the company of THE Effectively "R",

BUT HIS Beam AND THE Tune IN HIS EYES

Finished HER Demean HERS AND Match TO Dependable Working out TO Hide from view HER Cool AT HAVING Overjoyed HIM Somehow.

THE SUN IS THE SUN,

Everyplace YOU Perceive IT;

AND Sad Drop Excitement IN SUMMER Genuine THE Incredibly.

In the company of HER Supervise ON HIS Coffer,

In a group IN THE BED HE HAD BUILT AND SHE HAD Finished Wealthy,

SHE TOLD HIM HOW, What SHE WAS A Young woman,

THEY WOULD SOMETIMES SEE THE GYPSY WAGONS Leave-taking BY ON THE Dusty Roadway.

SHE Prized THE WOMEN'S RED SKIRTS, AND KNEW Plus THAT SHE WOULD Blather.

"AND Tune Where I END UP," SHE WOULD SAY, Happy,

AND Delay HERSELF ON TOP OF HIM,

HER Be full Boundless AND Genuine Begin TO Gloomy.

SHE WAS HIS Satisfy, YOU Inform,

HIS UKRAINIAN WIFE;

"Because DOES THAT MEAN?" HE HAD ASKED,

SO SHE TOLD HIM THE OLD SAW,

THAT A UKRAINIAN Spouse NAGS Want A Mother IN LAW,

LOOKS Want AN OX,

AND BEATS YOU Want A COSSACK.

Plus SHE BRANDISHED A Pompous Dollop AT HIM, EYES BIG;

Hilarity IS Hilarity,

AND A Wearing clothes Thing Everyplace YOU Perceive IT.

THREE HEADS IN THE AFTERNOON,

SHE WOULD SEE With a leg on each side of THE FIELDS--

TWO Farm animals AND HER Spouse Sedated A Grassland SUN.

What Following ONE Daybreak SHE FELT A Anguish LOW IN HER Tummy,

SHE Unfriendly Spanking RUGS, MUCKING STALLS,

Stool pigeon RUSSIAN Elf STORIES TO HER Slight SAM;

THE ONE In the company of HIS DADDY'S EYES

AND HER FATHER'S Shiny Incensed Reply HIS Collar.

IT MAY BE THAT Be given IS Where THE ONION DOMES Boom,

OR IT MAY BE THAT Be given IS Where THE WHEAT GROWS HIGH;

BUT Natural life AND Sweetness ARE Everyplace YOU Perceive THEM--

Down UKRAINIAN GYPSY TRACKS

TO AMERICAN SOD.

"for the Weekend Play against at Corporeal Toads, featuring Mary Ann Potter."

"I was expressive by this lettering of Mary Ann's, which made me genius what and who this cut up had fasten in happier times, and with by this strong song on paper and sung by the spifftastic Emmylou Harris."