[horses mules and hogs]
horses mules and hogs –
all our cows is in the boggs –
there they shall ever stay
till the buzzards take them away =
03/29/1836 (Tuesday)
This poem is in the public domain. Reprinted from The Words and Wares of David Drake: Revisiting “I Made This Jar” and the Legacy of Edgefield Pottery (University of South Carolina Press, 2024).