The Thing About the Dandelions
/I have never been one
in favor of violent killing
but
those dandelions have it coming
Every year I purge them
root and all
from the green spring lawn
Rip them from the earth
and pile their corpses
in a five gallon pail
It would appear
these resilient weeds
have not gotten the message
that they are unwelcome here
Let them grow
in the baseball field
in the roadside gullies
in the neighbor’s lawn
but not here
not when the grass seed
is just filling in the brown of winter
Still they invade
take root
raise their yellow heads
and declare
they will never relent
And still I tear them,
obstinate, from the soil
until the lawn
for today, at least
is once again nothing
but green
By Christopher Clauss
From: United States
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