Wires
by Philip Larkin
The
widest prairies have electric fences,
For though old cattle know they must not stray
Young steers are always scenting purer water
Not here but anywhere. Beyond the wires
Leads them to blunder up against the wires
Whose muscles-shredding violence gives no
quarter.
Young steers become old cattle from that day,
Electric limits to their widest senses.
(The Less Deceived, 1950)
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