The Pregnant Arts

Plenty a plague!
Might as well cry
Hale health "famine"
Peace upon a "pale horse"
Long life, delayed "death"!

A renowned deep ecologist,
Feminist!
Socialist!
Nationalist!
On a walking tour through
Southern paddies
Experimental fields
A corporate farm;
Stopping, complaining, in majesty:
"This is miserable rice!
Our grain -
Organic!
Natural!
Indian!
- is ever so much happier!"
Pointing, sadly, in accusation
At already-harvested
Weedy
Fallow
American acres.

Kindness towards flowers
Or consideration for the wheat?
Mere anthropomorphic sentiment
When either grows to reap!
What matter if rich men work at farming
If the fat poor can play at poets?

7/21/03