Wandering into the tall grass With shears not meant to cut I pushed and stepped And stepped and shoved My direction the only thing dashed I wandered left And wandered right As the weeds took over my path They seemed to know me As I tramped them down I heard screaming with each One I smashed “It’s always the grass, “It’s always the grass,” One of them cried Disappearing under my boot “They abandoned their brothers, “To live in the open “Among people that cut at their roots” I got to a clearing—the path widened out Ahead did a tractor invade And for the first time it hit me For the first time it mattered Before me, —lay a million dead blades