Textual Harrassment

 GARDENING IN TUXEDOS

Spring advances to meet me:the trees leafed out,

the dandelions set to seed,  the smell of damp raw

earth from  plowed fields, the distant puttering noise

of tractors when I stop beside the road to take a leak,

to make a peanut butter sandwich, to pick a sprig of

dogwood and some wild irises for the water-filled

beer bottles at rest in my dashboard  beer-bottle holder.

I open a fresh bottle of Budweiser, ignoring the twitch

 of  anguish in my pancreatic gland, drink hearty and

 move on.

Solstice the dog stares straight ahead, watching the

 road while I watch the passage of rural Missouri.  She

looks bad, bleary-eyed and melancholy. I know she's

clear of ticks but she could have worms. Will have to

make inspection next time she takes a shit. Unpleasant

duty but I'd rather look at hers than mine.

Textual Harrassment.

Identify the passage, author and text and  consider

responsibly its significance and relationship  to the

whole —the whole,  I said: text, context,  period of time,
overall weltanschuung & evolution of humanity & ART
in a now-post-literate & neo-oral age. .

Be specific. Your assessment will assess the clarity of

your thinking (5,4,3,2,1), coherent development of thesis

(5,4,3,2,1), logical relationship of argument (5,4,3,2,1),

good looking sentences (5,4,3,2,1) proper grammar and

punctuation of course goes with out saying and  also

especially  VOICE (5,4,3,2,1) —how you sound (if it

ain't got that swing  it don't mean a thing.)