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To: jpmac who wrote (12002)	8/21/1998 2:09:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

The local coffee shop opens at five, and if I'm caught up, I can get in there before the market opens at 6:30. From five to six, it's packed full of farmers, and the one logger left. (Used to be even-steven.) I pop open my coral file of color-printed MACD Histograms, try not to look too different, and peer over the top; ears peeled. It's usually worth it. Fun. Yesterday two grain-feds, across the counter in Dickies, are reading the local paper. The one on the left is reading the ads for farm machinery. He leans over to the guy next to him, and rubs his holding finger on an ad at the edge of the columns. "Says here, 'Retarded farmer must sell tractor.'" Everybody starts laughing. All the way around the loop. Sometimes it reminds me of a living room. A big living room couch. I'm laughing too, of course. They're smilin at me. "I think that musta been 'retired'" he postulates. "Yah. Retired farmer." "Glad it's not got my number on it." "You got uh be retarded, to be farmin."