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MELTING DOWN MOWERS

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Where there's mowing
bees and butterflies
have no mo wings

Machine deflowerers
remove the petaled
frocks of dandelions
and daisies and dahlias

and turn green tree saplings
into sticks
sending tree souls
to the River Styx

as they decapitate
anthills and daffodils.
Lawnmower accidents
give one chills.

By doing nothing
but planting seeds
one can watch
the world retreed.

(The Chicago office of the EPA
has often provided a free legal
brief for those fighting compulsory
mowing ordinances which violate
the 1st amendment freedoms of religion
and expression in forcing
people to kill nesting birds, fireflies,
small toads. Many have successfully
fought these draconian laws.)

BUBA

First oak drops
her acorn babies
Only then
the swaddling leaves

Raking them defrocks
the sheltering
silent sleeves

Better gather
leaves
into
warmtoasting
meadow sheaves

shshshing freed
sheep to sleep
in their loving sheaths

to Eugenie Radney
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SEPTEMBER SCEPTRE

Mother Earth turned machine
harvesters into spectres.
Now goldenrod waves his wand
made of many jeweled flowers
A September sceptre...
sign of Nature's trumping power

With shameful flagrance
flowers flaunt their fragrance
while shunning dandelions
as fourth class vagrants.

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Note:  Cinderella's 'wicked stepsisters'

were, Flora and

Isabella

-saiom shriver-

Footnote:
A number of researchers have proven plants and trees have feelings.
Perhaps the most famous is Chandra Bose, inventor of the radio which he demonstrated
in 1894, before Tesla, before Marconi. He was also knighted by Queen Victoria for
proving plant consciousness with his crescograph machine.

Others who have proven plant consciousness are reported in the book The Secret Life of Plants.

However experiments by a Mr. C.B. who dropped shrimp alive into boiling water at one
end of the room while plants responded at the other... were criminally violent.