N Dakota

Train death paintings, anti-meth murals Color the ghettos of N. Dakota Bismark tractor association, coffee and toothpaste This was vacation I saw, while squinting, the hidden layer In those lost-era grain elevators Feudal beginnings, amber wave looseness Post-Nordic grinning tired and toothless Cigarette advertisement country Wild and perfect, but lacking something In Manitoba they called it boring At night we hum to Canada's snoring Westbound taken, exiled Texan From a former Dutch trade encampment Former slave quarters tucked by the alley Serf population too high to tally --- N Dakota - Parquet Courts