When travellers pass through across our great plain,
They all view our home, they all say the same:
"It's simple and flat!" They've not learned to see,
The particular beauty that's now part of me.
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From David Bouchard's If you're not from the prairie..."
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Life here isn't about angst, or drama. It's not much about architecture or flights of human fancy. Life here is about... the gradual and nearly imperceptible change in the season. It is about the gradual and nearly imperceptible change in the land. Life here is about the gradual and nearly imperceptible change in me.
Nothing much ever happens here. But rest assured, when no