^{First published in the Winnipeg Free Press April 10, 2021}

^{I tried to tell the people but they never heard a word I say}

^{They say there’s nothing out there but wheat fields anyway}

^{Just a farmer’s wife hanging laundry in her backyard}

^{Out on the prairie where the winds blow long and hard}

Neil Young, Prairie Winds

By Saku Pinta,