Lookin Like Areas of Kansas

From Bernadette Mayer's collection, titled, Bernadette Mayer Reader. Lookin Like Areas of Kansas "We had our first cucumber yesterday". – Nathaniel Hawthorne New England is awful The winter's five months long The sun may come out today but that doesn't mean anything There are Yankees Men & women who cant talk They wear dark colors & trudge around, all in browns & greys, looking up at the sky & pretending to predict all the big storms Or else they nod wisely Yup, a northeaster The sky turns yellow all the time The river's grey Everything's black or white Everybody eats beans Everything freezes Everybody lives in an old paper house People chop wood all the time They slide around on these slippery icy roads\ All the trees look dead They make long shadows on the snow There's only daylight for about four hours People sit home & drink boilermakers At night all the telephones go out & the power lines blow down Every weekend there's a storm so nobody can come to see you The fireplaces are…