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Johnny W. Appleseed
- Appalachian Heritage
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Volume 30, Number 3, Summer 2002
- p. 19
- 10.1353/aph.2002.0078
- Article
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Johnny W. Appleseed Johnny Appleseed! He's no more real than the President. Walt Disney made him up And sold him to E.D. Hirsch Who re-sold him to the Governor. Now the S.O.B. is just another VA SOL. Who was he, anyway? Was he the man who set the charges Of the dynamite that blasted All the holes for planting all Virginia's red delicious? I know who he was, that Midwestern myth of apple romance. He's one more sedative Given us to swallow So we'll believe that we are cared for. Well, I've tasted the saltpeter in the opium. Now my hands are blistered For the clay did not yield easily To the spade I used to plant My own damned apple trees. —Mark Thomas Merz 19 ...
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