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I was probably around kindergarten age, and not understanding commas or the phrasing structure, I took it to mean "The farmer grows the grocer sacks," imagining field of large stalks sprouting brown paper bags. We lived on a farm at the time, and this now seems to be much more politically-loaded than I had originally understood. | I was probably around kindergarten age, and not understanding commas or the phrasing structure, I took it to mean "The farmer grows the grocer sacks," imagining field of large stalks sprouting brown paper bags. We lived on a farm at the time, and this now seems to be much more politically-loaded than I had originally understood. | ||
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Latest revision as of 16:14, 17 August 2011
This is a poem I remember from my early youth (late 1970s), from a t-shirt by my recollection:
The Farmer grows,
the Grocer sacks,
the Middleman buys
the Cadillacs.
I was probably around kindergarten age, and not understanding commas or the phrasing structure, I took it to mean "The farmer grows the grocer sacks," imagining field of large stalks sprouting brown paper bags. We lived on a farm at the time, and this now seems to be much more politically-loaded than I had originally understood.
