If it weren't enough <br />That the farms have gone for broke, <br />The two-child family awakens one morning <br />To find the farm machinery gone; <br />That into middle of night <br />Men violated darkness <br />With quiet sleight of hand <br />And loaded the John Deere, <br />Farmall, or International <br />Onto some semi-tractor trailer, <br />And made tracks out of rural America <br />To somewhere else. <br />The last American dream over coffee <br />Was only FmHA, the banker <br />And someone doing the work.<br /><br />Edward Steinhardt<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/oliver-twist/
