COMBINE HARVESTER by David Osgerby
The field mouse is an endangered species.
it lives in fields, and is especially fond
of fields of wheat, barley and rye.
Each harvest heralds field mouse Armageddon,
as a vast machine of obscenely disproportionate size
scythes through these minute creatures,
reducing them to mere bloodstains on corn.
Where else is something so large
used to kill something so, so small?
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David, a Preston ex-pat living in London, writes:
HELLO ALL, here’s a new one from David Osgerby, still doing missionary work down south for the mushy pea appreciation society. Cheers from London.
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