Original typescript of February's Forgotten Mittens and Feed by Raymond Knister.

Feed

For Danny whistling slowly 

"Down in Tennessee"

A fat white shoat by the trough

Lifts his snout a moment to hear,

Among the guzzling and slavering comrades, 

Squeezing and forcing:

And begins to feed again.

Whenever the certain note comes

He will raise his jaws

With his unturning eyes,

Then lean again to scoop up the swill.

 

(After Exile, page 11)

Part of Seven Poems, published in The Midland: A Magazine of the Middle West in 1922. (Volume 8, Issue 12)