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The Simple Life
by Charlene Knadle

The wind still whistles
through the valley
as it did on the day your
tractor toppled
on the hillside.
I stood watching
unable to turn away
as the heavy machine
spilled you out
then rolled over you
traveled on, leaving you
crushed and bloody
forever silent. Silence
is my companion now
driving me back to the
valley, where there is
the whistling wind.

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