I'm considering moving to Canada to live on an asparagus farm.
Asparagus
Doesn't worry about taxes or puppies or rent
Just grows and thinks greenly
Sensibly
I'd love to be sensible
I'm tired of the same people, the same expectations
The same taxes
I'd like to be sensible, tall and green
Straight and singing to a cloudless sky.
In Canada they have such farms, where the workers don't care
about death and taxes and whether we'll war
Sensibly
They go about their work, craggy faces full of peace
Hands caressing the singing spears.
(from years before I met B. Life is ironic sometimes.)
8 comments:
How poetic and direct and prophetic!
Let me see, you are now in Canada. You got your wish! How are you doing on the asparagus part?
Life has strage ways of biting us!
You should plant asparagus just because...
Hmmm. Asparagus. Not my favorite. How about carrots?
I'm with LGS. What about the asparagus?
-J.
Straight and singing to a cloudless sky.
I do like that.
LGS -
Actually, there are a few wild plants that sprout up in the backyard (must remember to pick those this year) but not a farm, no.
They're tasty.
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