Thursday, September 9, 2021

13,810. SHOW NO EMOTION, MAKE NO MOVEMENT

SHOW NO EMOTION, 
MAKE NO MOVEMENT
Potato pickers in Maine, who come 
down to Aroostook? Lines of Canucks 
with French faces. How marvelous 
can any of that be? I love that scenery.
They seem to make small campsites
along the lakeside beds, where they
talk away the hours  -  children and
mothers, men and boys. What's said
gets said, and then to bed. Another
day's picking looms.
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The landscape gets dotted as well,
with lumber trucks and cut-through
roads that bring this to that, and vice
versa too. It's been told to me that one
should never ask a Maine native for
directions to anywhere  -  for they take
a fond delight in mis-directing outsiders
and laughing off the result as great fun.
'Show no emotion, make no movement,
and then be done...'

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