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Sketch: Volume 19, Issue 1
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Rosie threw the dishwater out the back door and watched it trickle over the rutted ground, which was covered with a gray frothy crust from the washwater and the dishwasher that had been thrown there for years...
I. I ride the street cars, The dirty, sweat-smelling street cars everyday...
Anna Mae scooped the chicken mash out of the blue printed sack into the feed bucket...
I pause and watch the mallards spear The air in long, ragged V-lines, Ragged like the stalk-littered fields And the dead yellow stubble...
Eighteen years ago, Sketch was born on the Iowa State College campus. Such a magazine had been under discussion for several years; but remembering our quick decision to act and the occasional anxiety of our untried staff, I wonder whether it was born, or came into the world by a Caesarian operation...