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The Dust Bowl*
(Wait, wait, wait now…Listening to Coven - Blue Blue Ships that’s that blue eyed soul; haven’t heard this in ages, go head now)
There are
More individuals now competing
For a shrinking piece of the
US social pie in the sky like
Sovereign lands
Once affixed to ideals
Now breaking into businesses-with the
Universe
Doing the accounting
For souls lounging: in a
Modern
Dust bowl subject to
Retrace history
Making disbelievers
Feel what’s already been
Detailed in bold print
Figures assuming the
Position: already
Making their way back into
The census bureaus:
Chomping down on
Both the sweep;
Economies
And environments of
People:
Ships
Stopping off the
Seaboard: Eastern
Great plains far less
Fertile
Top soil 6 ft deep
Employed by some odd
4 or 5 generations:
Farmers
Dried up by the sun’s
Cataclysm: a
Monster; the species
Rampant
Tearing across
Prairies
Extracting their new names and
Their new meaning in it’s
Wake
Iotas of grain on
Borrowed
Syntax
Arranging: Fashioning
Themselves
Some formal
Propositioning:
Calculi-Properties
Forming
Constituents for me to
Feed from like
Ecological legacy
Less wheat
Reverberation
More power-
Static electricity
Jolting parts of us
Along
Some purple graph
Plotting their…
Exactions, casualties
With the
Binary point carrying the weight:
Left
20, 21, 22
Right
2-1, 2-2, 2-3
And so forth…
Yet to bestow the
Loving eyes
To their rightful owners
Trees: pendent; pensile
Drooping: languid
Nothingness to
Yield or uncover: adjacent
Ropes tied by
Barns
Of bodies cut open
Cut open.
Full of sand
Farming without anything
Hearty to long for
Without any
Possibility-
Identities lost
Appalachia, for one,
Left over
Chain or string….
Full spectrum of
Consequences ie
Forget me nots
Yet to wrap themselves
Around the mind in a
Retrievable, definitive order
Despair moving quickly on the
Foothills: my paper
Lost by the crops
Reenacting this
Dreaming
Awaken state-
With pen and paper
Simply
“Whistling past the graveyard”
An immaculate grass:
Contrasted some courtesy of
Survival-a
Heartbeat
Away.
There are
More individuals now competing
For a shrinking piece of the
US social pie in the sky like
Sovereign lands
Once affixed to ideals
Now breaking into businesses-with the
Universe
Doing the accounting
For souls lounging: in a
Modern
Dust bowl subject to
Retrace history
Making disbelievers
Feel what’s already been
Detailed in bold print
Figures assuming the
Position: already
Making their way back into
The census bureaus:
Chomping down on
Both the sweep;
Economies
And environments of
People:
Ships
Stopping off the
Seaboard: Eastern
Great plains far less
Fertile
Top soil 6 ft deep
Employed by some odd
4 or 5 generations:
Farmers
Dried up by the sun’s
Cataclysm: a
Monster; the species
Rampant
Tearing across
Prairies
Extracting their new names and
Their new meaning in it’s
Wake
Iotas of grain on
Borrowed
Syntax
Arranging: Fashioning
Themselves
Some formal
Propositioning:
Calculi-Properties
Forming
Constituents for me to
Feed from like
Ecological legacy
Less wheat
Reverberation
More power-
Static electricity
Jolting parts of us
Along
Some purple graph
Plotting their…
Exactions, casualties
With the
Binary point carrying the weight:
Left
20, 21, 22
Right
2-1, 2-2, 2-3
And so forth…
Yet to bestow the
Loving eyes
To their rightful owners
Trees: pendent; pensile
Drooping: languid
Nothingness to
Yield or uncover: adjacent
Ropes tied by
Barns
Of bodies cut open
Cut open.
Full of sand
Farming without anything
Hearty to long for
Without any
Possibility-
Identities lost
Appalachia, for one,
Left over
Chain or string….
Full spectrum of
Consequences ie
Forget me nots
Yet to wrap themselves
Around the mind in a
Retrievable, definitive order
Despair moving quickly on the
Foothills: my paper
Lost by the crops
Reenacting this
Dreaming
Awaken state-
With pen and paper
Simply
“Whistling past the graveyard”
An immaculate grass:
Contrasted some courtesy of
Survival-a
Heartbeat
Away.
Published 25th Dec 2018
| Edited 31st Dec 2018
Author's Note
Reference
https://livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/water_02.html
https://livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/water_02.html
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