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The Rainmaker

The weather plots his journey

Town to town in dead of night

Fields dead and on a gurney

He comes in to make it right

 

A rainmaker, people call him

A psuedo-scammer others say

He sells himself as godlike

He comes quick and does not stay

 

He tells people what they wish for

He beats the storm in to their town

He seeds their minds with his tall stories

He promises more green than brown

 

Like an evangelistic angel

He beats the weather to the ground

He's a salesman like no other

He picks their pockets with no sound

 

A rainmaker, just a scammer

He works the towns where nothing lives

He is an alchemist non-gratta

He always takes and never gives

 

He sells snake oil and concoctions

He is a shaman in disguise

He promises rain where none has fallen

There is more moisture in the farmers eyes

 

He takes credit for a rainfall

He promises gold where once was straw

He's a rumplestiltskin with their feelings

He sells them only what they wish they saw

 

He may believe in what he tells them

He always puts his name out on a stake

But, can he truly make the skies open

That is a choice the desperate make

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Written by
roger-turner
Canadian
Published
Feb 23, 2013
Lines·Words
32·209
Tags
#hope#rain#snake#wish#oil#farmer#drought#scammer#rainmaker#shaman
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