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I'd give you the description of the girl Evangeline in William Stafford's "The Osage Orange Tree." It's a short story--you should probably go and read it sometime. It describes her as very poor, her feet as being dusty and bare, so on and so forth. But she's pretty, and the narrator has a thing for her.

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I read the story way back in eighth grade, about seven years ago, and that's when I started loving Evangeline (with the LINE ending, please, not LEEN). It always sounded a bit countrified and rural in a really pleasing way to me, and it was pretty much unknown.

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That's not so anymore, and I have to admit, it's really lost its shine to me. I never expected Evangeline to start sounding faux-boho...but it has.

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I'll always like Evangeline, a bit. I'm just really sick of hearing about it right now, I've decided.

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I want to be be more like a river--
Less like a wall--
Not trying to hold back these feelings at all.

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A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having.