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Triptych with Poem inspired by a juried exhibition You Are What You East, a self portrait and food.
Food Innocence Lost
This is a simple message
Any child can understand.
How we alter and poison our food
For the people of the land.
Choices we have!
To question what’s bad.
Food so cheap
We waste as much as we eat.
Chickens we grow in 45 days or so
Then off to market they go.
Kept in light through day and night.
Fed feed they eat without true delight
Formulated so they can’t stop or sleep
Until harvest ends their sorrowing peep.
Cattle snatched from grassy fields
Then to feed lots to prepare for someone’s meal.
Penned and fed to make them fat.
Chemical cocktails, hormones, antibiotics
Anti-depressants and such as that
Make them eat what is fed
Until it’s time to make them dead.
The world is hungry we are told
Must prepare to feed the mutltifolds. .
Use what we must to make it grow
GMO seeds, pesticides, fertilizer added to what is sowed.
Chemical runoff to the water it goes.
What it does to us, we seem not to know.
Blind eye we turn
Our food waste we churn.
Awake! Eyes open!
We have paid a cost
Food Innocence has been Lost.
Percy Kleinops
Copyright 2018. All rights reserved.
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Triptych with Poem inspired by a juried exhibition You Are What You East, a self portrait and food.
Food Innocence Lost
This is a simple message
Any child can understand.
How we alter and poison our food
For the people of the land.
Choices we have!
To question what’s bad.
Food so cheap
We waste as much as we eat.
Chickens we grow in 45 days or so
Then off to market they go.
Kept in light through day and night.
Fed feed they eat without true delight
Formulated so they can’t stop or sleep
Until harvest ends their sorrowing peep.
Cattle snatched from grassy fields
Then to feed lots to prepare for someone’s meal.
Penned and fed to make them fat.
Chemical cocktails, hormones, antibiotics
Anti-depressants and such as that
Make them eat what is fed
Until it’s time to make them dead.
The world is hungry we are told
Must prepare to feed the mutltifolds. .
Use what we must to make it grow
GMO seeds, pesticides, fertilizer added to what is sowed.
Chemical runoff to the water it goes.
What it does to us, we seem not to know.
Blind eye we turn
Our food waste we churn.
Awake! Eyes open!
We have paid a cost
Food Innocence has been Lost.
Percy Kleinops
Copyright 2018. All rights reserved.