Toby Olson

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Birds

Birds fly south across the barnyard: an omen. pig thinks & wishes he had a shotgun. Birds flying in all directions and everywhere. Ugh, says Pig-- so many ladders, black cats, strange smells, there are omens and dreams . black wings and tusks O when and will the birds come down. they will from everywhere. and do build a nest in the dead pig/s nostrils.

Coyote

Coyote makes a diary of sadness in the mountains, deserts and plains where he lives. alone, and he sings from it. At night, even where Pig can hear, it moves in and across Pig/s eyes and in pig/ears, near where his brain ticks: what they will do is make meat of me bacon and chops a-roast-pig, and whatever else is tasteful (Coyote sings from it. and Pig hears it alone, in the barnyard where he lives.

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