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This small remembered fragment turns Boy's Town into a landscape of institutional absurdity, with barracks in wheat fields standing in for exile and derangement.

Its brevity matters. Rather than explain Foxie, the page lets one quoted image do the work, and the effect is sharp: the place becomes a rural military enclosure that still feels emotionally unhinged years later.

A three-line quote-sketch giving Foxie's voice directly. As they walked, he would describe Boy's Town, 'Nebraska' as 'a bunch of barracks out in the wheat fields, / and just carr'in on like crazy.' The frame is plain ('we'd be walking along ... and he'd say'), letting one remembered image - institutional barracks dropped in open wheat - carry the character's history of confinement and rural derangement. Source spellings/dialect ('carr'in') are preserved.