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Wheat Porn.

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::As if you thought I wouldn't do it; you knew I would as soon as I mentioned it.::

Dirty Wheat
by Julie R. Neidlinger

The filthy wheat waved in the wind,
Slender and willowy,
Lasciviously beckoning the huge huge combine.
The heavily bea--

(Time out here. I just thought of something that would be perfect to include in this agrarian double-entendre, but I just can't bring myself to show anyone else those workings of my mind.)

...and willowy,
Lasciviously beckoning the huge huge combine
Except for the stalks, broken, hailed on, pounded down,
Lying supine.

(Having some trouble with the rhythm.)

Flushed cheeks on each kernel,
The crease narrow between two rounded--

(What was I thinking? I'm making myself blush at my own pen. About wheat.)

Flushed cheeks on each kernel

Flushed cheeks on each kernel

Flushed cheeks on eac--

(Kernel doesn't rhyme with many useful words.)

The flushed cheeks on the farmer
From too much sun

(I wonder if I should denote that it is the facial cheeks I'm talking about? I think that would be a given considering we're talking a farmer here, and no farmer tan in the world would reveal any other cheeks, though this be a poem of double entendre.)

As he gently brushed his hands over the
over the
over the

(I can't go on. This is too much.)

Nine dollars a bushel is a good price.