Orchard Orchestration



he hated sweeping blossom petals

and raking bright autumn leaves

and he was very much afraid of

the nectar loving bees



so he cut down all the cherry trees

scythed down a mighty grove

and all the vines which round

trunk grew

of time he spent a fortune



he now had plastic roses

vinyl tulips styrene orchids

in the barren garden of

his sterile orkin nation



he had no barren ruined choirs

for he had no choirs at all

and birds to neighbors' forests flocked

to stage their orchard orchestrations

Author's Notes/Comments: 

The Saint of Shirdi
says we lick off others'
sins when we describe
them.. with full knowledge
of that the writer says

Lott is one of 4 main
chicken abusers in the
Senate .. along with
the 2 Iowa senators
and Feingold. Because
of his lobbying, Oklahoma
remains one of 3
states in the union
allowing the barbarism
of cockfighting.
He has tried to stifle
the Senate's oversight
function re the war.
Senator Daschle,
Senator Dodd and Senator
Kennedy, liberal senators
were the target of
anthrax attack letters.
Professor Rosenberg
says the FBI has
3 or more times questioned
the lab employee
who sent the letters.

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