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In its first form, the Green Revolution proved
a failure for imposing practice & produce
unfit for the biomes
it invaded: leeched soil, disrupted tradition, a cashgrain surplus,
human cost & useless machines (big money):
—fagged
wings still flapping
only to compete.
Force an order
& aid it (profit)
to grow.
Stark-white & red-trimmed
angled
: Clay’s new swine
nursery
that one neighbor
of an afternoon
dropt by to see:
—How
many head?
—Uh
bout
five hunnert. Grow em big an grow em fast. What they say anyway.
FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
a clarion:
go big or get out—
fields grow over their own.
Under exhaust-fan’s
threnody
fly clouds pause in specks
on the siding & mushroom
around the old mutt’s head
him snuffling clods along
the sod-rimmed foundation.
& in the west, an amassing dark,
to break this skinclinging heat |