April 5 - Planting Season

Grapefruits

I hate them

that was the size of the tumors
lurking in their brains tick tock

that took my boy and my man

funny thing they weren’t blood

but in death they were the same

Strawberries

I hate them too

those were the fields were they worked

gas so deadly had to give it an odor

laid in wait for them trapped under tarps

getting the ground ready for the berries

They. Pulled. Up. The. Tarps.

After the funerals I start to hear

how this gas is so bad it’s been banned

except for the strawberries

except for the other brown skinned countries

where grapefruit crops can blossom

inside the tiny farms of loved ones brains