He had followed the calendar, the years, time- Bird farted. And it came to me, as though it were riding one moment of the gusting wind, as though bird had had it in him all the time and had passed it to me in that one moment of instant corruption. James Welch
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The quote that is being discussed here was written by Edgar Lee Masters’ in his book 'Spoon River Anthology'. It is a poem written by the poet, William Cullen Bryant. It was about how he came to know of two men named Bird and Fart. The poem describes how the two men are disconnected from the actual world because they are extremely lazy.

As a result, they fail to realize what is happening around them. They live their lives without making any attempts to change their lives for the better. They only try to stay alive and avoid the pain of death.

Source: Winter In The Blood

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