1918

Maybe it was while reading the 1918 Union Valley Bulletin / A political handbill given John Hoggat by a hacking cougher at the feed store / Maybe it was the sour apple gone mahogany black that he’d eaten from his wife’s cellar stash / He knew he should have given it to Trudy their hog / Maybe it was the six-mile walk to and from his father’s farm in Stonewall, Oklahoma / Just to ask, need help with that heifer, Pop? / Maybe it was the burning tingling running over the top of John’s head