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Damn You Bastards With Water

Dam you bastards with water; I think you all are coots While I watch the weather everyday and plead for rain filled fronts I’m not some greedy bastard, which wants to grow more grass I need my stock to have a drink, and save their thirsty **** Don’t get me wrong, I’m not some greenie, with an axe to grind In many areas our futures, are unbelievably intertwined But for god sake, sit back and think, just how lucky that you are Because all that water that you waste, well some comes from my jar. I can’t but help, smile a wry grin, when the irrigation stops As the whinging starts, about the loss in cash, as profit production drops Your stock still have water, to pour straight down their throats Water troughs filled to the brim, not erectile dysfunction floats I see your places from the hill, circles of dark green crops and grass Metal robots, pissing water, creatures born of greed; I have to sigh alas There’s more to farming than factory farms and copious quantities of water Deciding on paper, which animals must go, on the truck to slaughter. So please forgive me when I wish on you, pestilence and misery May your cereals wilt, stock get the shits, and your profits become history I’m not some greedy bastard, of extra dry matter I have no need If my stock just had clean water to drink, from my anxiety I’d be freed

Copyright © | Year Posted 2015




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Date: 1/6/2016 2:52:00 PM
Brilliant Mark and you say what you feel, doing it in poetic form and straight to the point. It is strange the way things are, some can do what they like with the water while you lose stock if you don't have enough. Well, poetry is for making a point and you made yours for sure Mark. Just tell it as it is....Vladislav.
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Date: 1/8/2016 3:07:00 PM
Some of my better writes are when I just spill out onto the page.A a couple of my poems which I won't post here because they only significant geographically, seem like a tidal wave of feeling. Thank you for the visit.
Date: 10/3/2015 2:31:00 PM
My friend, you will give yourself an ulcer holding back and keeping bottled up your true feelings! Next time tell us what you really think....lol Great poem expressing frustration and anger at others massive greed.... A7
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Date: 10/3/2015 2:31:00 PM
My friend, you will give yourself an ulcer holding back and keeping bottled up your true feelings! Next time tell us what you really think....lol Great poem expressing frustration and anger at others massive greed.... A7
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Date: 10/3/2015 3:09:00 PM
This was a poem I wrote last year, while we were in a massive drought. Emotions aren't something I necessarily express that well, but they hit the page damn hard the day I wrote this!
Date: 9/25/2015 12:01:00 PM
Your frustration is universal, I think ... need meets greed. Very well written and relevant ... CayCay
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Date: 9/25/2015 6:10:00 PM
One of my friends once said to me that people may enjoy my raw in your face writing after I wrote a poem about animal activism (no good to post here).
Date: 8/9/2015 4:58:00 PM
Brilliant poetry Mark and not shy to make a point..... Ivor
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