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# The Manure Wagons Roll On
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/david-scher-the-manure-wagons-roll-on/
- Published: 2017-10-07T15:00:55.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-26T17:40:03.000Z
- Description: The flags must flap, while our fields are defiled.
- Author: David Scher
- Tags: Art, Drawing, Weekend, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:30(2016, 2017, part 3)

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David Scher, “Manure Wagons of the Stars” (2017), ink on paper, 44x 60 inches

*Manure Wagons of the Stars*

And there a manure wagon of the autonomous region passes  
Ay the manure wagon heaves of it  
She to his mumble plugs an ear

God it smells of it  
It speeds the air  
And from the moon hangs a pretty little cloud of it

The day is cut from it, in hourly pies of it  
There a mountain of it with  
Crag-fastened ram and smells of ewe

Wagon wheels must turn.  
Flags must flap, our field defiled.  
Dang ye wheel-borne corn-cobblers!

*This drawing will appear in the exhibition* [David Scher: “The first bird wore a bird costume”](https://www.pierogi2000.com/upcoming-at-pierogi/?ref=hyperallergic.com) *at Pierogi, 155 Suffolk Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan), October 14-November 16 (opening reception: Sunday, October 15, 6-8pm).*