Mavi Graves: Music

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Leland was the ditchrider and during his day
he's stop and stare at the wide open desert.
Atop his head a shock of white hair.
Saw things others said weren't there like
snowstorms in summer.
One morning he went to check the gate
and on the hill he saw a thing that was half-man,
half-bird and who was singing:

Aytd oopa

Darrel was his brother and all day long, he'd tend
a herd of cattle for the slaughter. "I have lived here
all my life. I don't know how I'm gonna survive the
ever falling prices."
Storm clouds slate like arrowheads. Darrel stopped
to take a rest, arms folded around his shovel. I
saw it on my way home from school, nothing the ambulance
could do. Lightning had turned him into charcoal.

Aytd oopa

And in the new snow near his house were only tracks
of fox and grouse.

Aytd oopa