Saturday, February 20, 2010

The Seed

The mustard seed fell
It died, bearing
a hundred other seeds...
a thousand...
ten thousand...
a hundred thousand.

And so the story goes,
a story from of old.
But one day someone tried to
change the ending.
>>>>>We need DDT.
>>>>>Insecticides and fertilizers, he adds.

The seed does not have to die.

It can bear more fruit: a hundred...a thousand...ten
thousand...a hundred thousand...five hundred thousand...
a million.

We can do this: Build bigger barns, use sophisticated
gadgets to keep the seeds warm. Germinating, he called it.

We'll show the entire kingdom
That seeds need not suffer much
to bear enough fruit.
Too old-fashioned, too outdated.
Buyers can't wait that long.

We'll use modern technology.
The results will be:
>>>>>better harvest
>>>>>more money.
More bucks to buy
>>>>>more DDT, more fertilizers, more tractors
to build
>>>>>more barns, more special equipment
>>>>>more bridges.