Who are the "farm boys" in the poem, Two-Headed Calf?

On the following day, according to the speaker, a group of farm boys will discover the two-headed calf's body. They refer to him as a "freak of nature.../ wrap his body / in newspaper and carry him to the museum" (2-3). To the farm boys, the calf only has value in terms of the revenue that he could generate. Difference is something to be gawked at rather than accepted and valued of its own accord.

The farm boys are not necessarily portrayed as evil. They exist to prompt the reader to consider the ways in which he or she relates to difference (whether it be in others or in oneself).