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Harvest

A six-cylinder car and two Fords in the middle of
------the fields
In every direction as far as the horizon the slightly
------slanting swaths crisscross in a wavering
------diamond-shaped checkerboard pattern
Not a tree
From the North comes down the rumble and rattle of the
------automotive thrasher and forage wagon
And from the south come twelve empty trains to
------pick up the wheat

-Blaise Cendrars