Fly Over State

Fly Over State

I used to think—

I hated them all

But now I see that

I just hated myself

I hated myself—

For trying to fit into

A tacky small-town

Cartoon Cowtown

Stuck by the tracks—

The Anderson Feed Lots

Then Iowa Beef stench

Later Tyson’s Inc.

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Former Santa Fe depot—

A fattening-up Zone

For the slaughter later

In Chicago & Kansas City

It used to be just—

The smell of cow-shit

Drifting outta the shitty

Anderson Feed Lots

But later on—

They started butchering

Them on the spot with

Iowa Beef busy at work

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The putrid smell—

Of money they said

Made up for the stench

Of Auschwitz Inc.

The Big Money—

Shifted from Beef to

Chicken when chic

Tyson Co. moved in

Phil Fleming smiled—

The rest of the gang

Grinned, it was the

Smell of Big Time Bucks

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If you caught a whiff—

Of it downwind it was

Putrid enough to make

You wanna Vomit

And so the little—

Athens of the Midwest

Turned into the Armpit

Of the fuckin Universe

I got outta town—

While the getting’ was

Good without looking

Back or saying goodbye

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C of E folded then—

KSTC kept things going

Producing Breeders to

Spread the Disease

Wal-Fart moved in—

Bankrupting downtown

It used to be the little

Athens of the Midwest

Now it’s a Ghost Town—

Red State Kansas deluxe

Ultra-Right Republicans

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