Teaching Tools: The Olden Days
- Open your hymnals
- to a cracked and lacquered
- scene of
- country commerce.
- See the haymow scuttle.
- See the mules in tow.
- See the scythe
- cut
- the wheat grass back.
- See the money change hands, oh—
- chapter and verse.
- See the women
- in shawls,
- saw,
- shovels
- on shoulders of
- pall-
- bearers,
- share-
- holders,
- bury their tithe
- beneath a pale blue canopy,
- then hoe in the dirt,
- Here on Earth.