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Sorry OK people Next question on this fun little poem

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here uplifting one The image of the farmhouse with the

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new city street It has to wear a number in

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grammar Police being alerted here Lines two and three there

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serves to do what What does it do Why Why

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is it there Good Well the farm house used to

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hang out by itself you know out on the prairie

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chillin with that awesome brook Then the city rolled in

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with its fancy pants bars and restaurants and addresses As

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a result Farmhouse was forced to wear a number meaning

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it had to be integrated into the new World Order

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of the big city So it's a imply a sense

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of the past being forced to assimilate into more modern

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circumstance That's the right answer The wrong ones Well the

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farmhouses personified in the idea of wearing a number like

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a person would wear clothes But that number is a

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bigger symbol of integration Because the new order results in

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the beloved Brooks destruction wealth the speaker isn't commenting on

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it at all The farm can continue lingering but only

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if it submits to the city's evil difficult overbearing ways

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where it sticks out because of its rural simplicity So 00:01:22.09 --> [endTime] it's not either that's it

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