Henry Lichenwalner: Living in the Middle
Here in Alliance, Illinois, I'm living in the middle, standing on the Courthouse lawn in the middle of town, in the middle of my life, a self-confessed middlebrow, a member of the middle class, and of course Middle Western, the middle, you see, the middle, believing in the middle way, standing here at midday in the middle of the year, breathing the farm-fragrant air of Sunflower County, in the true-blue middle of middle America, in the middle of my dreams.