Edible Advice
by Rachel Hoyt
Lettuce chop
our water use
eating crops
that don't abuse.
Orange you
a drop concerned?
Corn it be true
all chops are earned?
Olive Earth
is drenched with greed,
suckling since birth
where instinct leads.
Cheese, Louise,
we've chugged and chewed
all we could seize,
all sprouts and spews.
Beef or all
our fruits are dried,
sip a tall
glass of, "I tried."
Copyright © 2014 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.
California's almonds have been getting some bad press.
Some make it sound like they're the cause of my state's water mess.
Yet, if most looked at all that they ate and gauged it's water use,
they'd see that produce guzzles but only animals abuse.
