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Skinner's Farm

Weeds deeds tractors and, seeds dirt on hands, mud on jeans. Mother nature giving way to this farmland my family has made. Cattle, pigs grain and, rye wheat, barley I question why? Corporate takeovers, governments greed, is ruining our farmlands and, the farmers creed to feed the hungry families. So, what's to come from years of sweat? of working ones body almost to death. Building a farm from beginning to end dawn to dusk never seems to end. Family traditions generations gone by to be a farmer now one can't survive so, throw in the deeds tractors and, seeds dirt on hands, mud on jeans, give up trying let it be, when it died it took a part of me.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2006




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