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I suppose most plants started off as weeds!!these days on allotments many
have a section for wild life (as in plants not people)    maybe some poets
are weeds P D'Weed
icured cousins. Quite a line :-)

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Sent: 10 December 2014 09:18
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Subject: weeds

Thanks, Max, Doug, Sheila. I wanted lower case, Doug, for the lower status
'plants' they are. Couple of slight tweaks, Max.

Bill

 
unwelcome arrivals
insinuating earth ...
 
yet to the blind
they feel lush,
 
to the child
they look soft.
 
the wind
waves them.
 
they oxygenate
air the same
 
as their man-
icured cousins.
 
by whose command
should we consign,
 
pluck, relegate?
weeds we
 
are all
in the end.
 
bw
9.12.14