Ten Thousand

10,000 The cows are all dead. They died in the heat, or so they said. I feel sorry for the cows, but more sorry for the farmers, the ranchers, the processors, the packers, the truckers, the factory works, the wholesale and retail people... The store, the grocery workers, the meat men, (the butchers) and you... me... us. In two years... twenty-two food-related companies, have been burned up, burned down, flooded out, and hit by planes. Yes, two planes. Two different sites. When I used to stay with my grandmother, in the hot summers of Arizona... It was hard to go outside at times. She bought me books to read, and paint by number... color sets. It did not take long to see, if you used all the right shades, in the right order... that pigment does not lie. There was a pattern. (always) Even at six, it was plain to see. Things are much clearer than before, there is evil at the door.