Affirmative Action

yes

With the carrot flies

Invading our crop

We asked them nicely

If they might’n just stop

“Who me?” says one

I’m just flying by

From another, it’s a go

Stick it in your eye

Apparently, we’ll get

No sort of co-operation

Meaning, they’re faced with

Complete elimination

 

Our good friend Mr. Raid

Was dutifully standing by

With poisoned spray

For each nasty fly

 

They are now chased away

From each carrot spot

But unfortunately, his secret formula

Caused each carrot to rot

 

This left rotten carrots

Which now all badly stunk

Having each one’s accessory

Being badly shrunk

Leaving possible climatic results

Badly affected

And their capabilities

Sagging downwardly directed

 

With these infertile carrots

Incapable of patch pursuit

To elicit some interest

They’ve gone completely bare root

This erotic sight

Of those carrots, formerly affected

Has enabled their accessories

To again be favorably redirected

 

 

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

now I just buy my carrots, sliced and in a can...
Old age.

j.

[Dave Brown]

The smart person's solution
And a pleasant good day 2U

[John the Baptist]

At least the ending is happy. Nothing worse than having your accessory badly shrunk. Some of us haven't got enough as it is.

[Dave Brown]

How so true
There is nothing to compare with a happy end er,' ending
BTW has the smoke reached you?
a map shows it stretching right across the continent
I did a b***h at BG and since, we have finally had our advisory lifted!
Great girl!

[John the Baptist]

Indeed the smoke reached Virginia Beach, which is near me. I heard they're feeling its effects in Europe.
Yes, BG is sui generis.

[Dave Brown]

Crazy .

[Annette Pisano-Higley]

Haaaa! Methinks I read some witty double-entendre in this rollicking, rhyming ditty Dave'.. Never raised carrots or heard of "carrot flies", but can feel your frustration with a natural environment gone so awry that much cannot be remedied-what, 'climate change doesn't exist'??? We beg to differ strongly! Oh and yes, I'm thinking you"re hinting that limp carrots from earthly changes, marauding flies and toxic chemicals just may be soon related to an equally infertile state in man...hmmmmmmm! Love this!

[Dave Brown]

Thanks Annette
If we can't see that things are going to hell in a handbasket we probably deserve the outcome!
Hope UR enjoying your day
"Margie' (it is absolutely all her fault) still has us smoked in, which is getting to be such an everyday thing that we will probably think the world is burning if the sun ever shines again

[barleygirl]

This is one of your more shining stars in that genre you invented called wild imagination and watch out for mind-blowing cliff-hanging curves. I am having a confounded time with flies myself. I've got the teensy ones that hover over your eyes, ears, nose, mouth, crotch, butt -- anything damp -- and they're so easy to inhale if you mouth-breathe! I think I'm going to have to resort to Mr. Raid even tho I typically try not to use many pesticides in favor of the abundant lizards. But these damn flies never land, they just hover, so the lizards can't slurp 'em up. It's a b***h. Ya think it's the confounded smoke inversion? I posted a poem this morning that somewhat maligns you, by the way (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

[Dave Brown]

Those same teenie GD flies also exist here and they come right through the finest screen available!!!
I woke up in the middle of one night and there were exactly three hundred and forty-seven thousand of the little b******s all plastered all over my walls
But I love nature
Isn't nature grand
He asked