Well, we’re not dying wondering - that idea this
prickly weed isn’t after your blood’s easily slam
dunked as a furphy; I’ve bleeding scratches on
both arms and legs, all trade marks of th’ close
encounter effect, but we’re winning so far, next
year there’ll be a lot less of ‘em to contend with
Of course we’ll have to remember glyphosate’s
better for debating whether they get another go
at regrowth, which is assured from severed, un
-poisoned stems; but I agree, more spreads off
mature seeds than any other means - so we’re
halfway there with a spray-date up th’ track
Yet looking back at a mornings work there’s an
almost hollow feeling we’d have done better to
make this a once-only foray - tho’ it’d’ve meant
a broader plan with greater intent and taken all
of the day; so maybe our glyphosate ‘back-up’
later in the year’s a better way to stay sane
© 20 January 2016, I. D. Carswell
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