The last time
I drove up here
With these people
You were with me too
You said you liked
The farmland- it appealed
To your sense
Of order
I tried to explain to you
How disorderly
It really was-
Because it's really
The natural world,
Uninfluenced by man,
That's orderly
Because us humans,
With our self-destructive
Monocultures which exist
To support our self-destructive
Industries,
Produce 98% of our corn
For just about anything
But human consumption...
But you didn't understand that
Of course,
So we sat in silence
For a few minutes
As I failed
To understand you too
And I should have known then,
As you failed to see the world
As an oncoming apocalypse
Revealed through shades of corn
And I failed
To see the world
As anything but,
That though everything was fine
On so many levels
Beneath the surface,
At some fundamental level
We, like the corn industry,
Were unsustainable
Aug 31, 2013
Aug 31, 2013 at 12:39 AM UTC
The last time
I drove up here
With these people
You were with me too
You said you liked
The farmland- it appealed
To your sense
Of order
I tried to explain to you
How disorderly
It really was-
Because it's really
The natural world,
Uninfluenced by man,
That's orderly
Because us humans,
With our self-destructive
Monocultures which exist
To support our self-destructive
Industries,
Produce 98% of our corn
For just about anything
But human consumption...
But you didn't understand that
Of course,
So we sat in silence
For a few minutes
As I failed
To understand you too
And I should have known then,
As you failed to see the world
As an oncoming apocalypse
Revealed through shades of corn
And I failed
To see the world
As anything but,
That though everything was fine
On so many levels
Beneath the surface,
At some fundamental level
We, like the corn industry,
Were unsustainable
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