Midwesterners

MIDWESTERNERS Plains populated with Czechs, German Scandinavians and Serbs The United States of Europe and America The national colors are yellow and green On Independence Day we salute father mother and parentland and regret the heavy rains too much water diluted originals too generous with the fertilizer six foot at least two-car garages airconditioned bathrooms The prairie is fertile steaming black soil treelike corn to feed mammoth cows opinions to match prodigal thirsts quenched in darkness while contemplating prices, salaries and nothing in particular The continuous fight of two souls lush fields burnt brown in the fall a tried and true system awesome machines like grazing dinosaurs and the final solution in government Life Is Now and faith can move mountains we can look so far and not see the end or the beginning we are the Giants of the Earth BY FRITZ H. KÖNIG* 118VOL 34, NO 2(SPRING 1980) ...