been the best season for mangoes in a while
I believe, leastways our trees are laden; now
were we from NE Queensland or NT we’d be
grieving it seems, th’ poor dears have picked
a mere 1.7m trays of their 4.5m for last year
on ‘em these past five years - so in SE QLD
its a feast or a famine where you can bet on
th’ feast continuing ’til the last delish mango
disappears gratefully down the hatch
turpentines drop by the tonne from massive
roadside trees, & casually lie where they fell -
seems birds don’t give have hoot in Hell for
the irreverent scale of this arrant waste, but
such that it hardly seems to matter …
© 17 January 2014, I. D. Carswell
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