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There recently was a
national competition

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to select 12 short poems for
exhibition in New York state

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aboard 2020 buses.

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One poem per month.

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This is October 1975.

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A little poem called
Pioneer Courtship.

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It probably amused
the city slickers.

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Pioneer Courtship.

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During a Saturday night dance
at the Doyle schoolhouse

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not far from Exeter,
Nebraska, Joe Gephardt

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looked up from the
spit shine on his shoes

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into the eyes of miss
Jenny Satterfield.

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Well, now, he said,
and Jenny, who

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had spent much of the evening
picking at her hanky agreed.

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