Hay for the Horses - Gary Synder
Gary Synder's "Hay for the Horses" is about him traveling through half the night with a big truckload of hay to the barn. He hauls alfafa high in the dark; with the sun barely rising. He is itchy from the haydust, sweaty from the work. He toils about, but during lunchtime he has time to reflect. He is 68 years old, but worked this job when was 17. It might resemble a self-fulfilling prophecy... but a far stretch assumption is he probably kept toiling and never made time to think about doing anything else he may have wanted to do. I find it depressing... how would you interpret this poem?
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