![]() Sweeping the States
they move in swift on the Swift Plants in six states & sift through the faces to separate the dark from the light like meat & seat them in the back of vans packed tight like the product they pack & who's to pick up the slack the black & white can't cut it so the beef stacks sell single to feed the pack the flock who block passages & clog the cogs of the machine the process not so swift to give & grant a wish of a place a stake in the land handling the steaks for the rest to take in to sate the mouths of the stock who have stock in the business of beef & beef with the brown who ground them From Volume 191, Number 2, November 2007 Copyright © The Poetry Foundation |