July 9, 2019 · 3:19 pm
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Those Fertile Lies – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

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Those Fertile Lies

If your vegetable garden languishes
and manure brings no results,
just give them a little evening news
and there’ll be bumper crops,
all those fertile lies,
rich fantasies,
faux concern
and invented anxieties
with smiling invitations
to more episodes of the same,
a soap-opera of nitrogenous value,
stay tuned for another
exciting excrement,
Oh, wait, there’s breaking wind,
every night,
even the mushrooms gave us
shade last summer.

©Paul Vincent Cannon

Paul, pvcann.com

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44 responses to “Those Fertile Lies – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon”

  3. Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog
    July 9, 2019 at 3:38 pm

    Fun poem! 🙂 There is (especially) one nefarious news channel in the U.S. that cranks out pure crap.

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  8. rugby843
    July 9, 2019 at 7:05 pm

    I’ve been weaning myself off news, since it’s too frustrating.

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  9. calmkate
    July 9, 2019 at 7:27 pm

    lol absolutely love love love it!

    I’ve only been reading online headlines for ages now … I prefer my manure on the garden 🙂

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  11. -Eugenia
    July 10, 2019 at 1:56 pm

    So very timely and a brilliant piece! Wow!

    Liked by 1 person

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  14. krc
    July 11, 2019 at 12:00 pm

    great one
    👍✏🌃

    Like

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  15. lync56
    July 12, 2019 at 10:37 pm

    So very true and said so very well

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