N Dakota - Parquet Courts

Train death paintings, anti-meth murals

Color the ghettos of N. Dakota

Bismark tractor association, coffee and toothpaste

This was vacation

I saw, while squinting, the hidden layer

In those lost-era grain elevators

Feudal beginnings, amber wave looseness

Post-Nordic grinning tired and toothless

Cigarette advertisement country

Wild and perfect, but lacking something

In Manitoba they called it boring

At night we hum to Canada’s snoring

Westbound taken, exiled Texan

From a former Dutch trade encampment

Former slave quarters tucked by the alley

Serf population too high to tally