The People Who Work in The Gloriously Grimy Soils - Grover Korn

The People Who Work in The Gloriously Grimy Soils - Grover Korn (Lincoln, Nebraska)

Thanksgiving of Long Ago:

A time When we Feasted A time When we Gathered

A time When we gave Thanks for the Harvest

That's what Thanksgiving Once Was

But Alas,

Thanksgiving is Now a Time

To Overeat

To Slop Around

To give In to the Commercial Glut

So Many, Many Simple things we Could be Thankful for

But Yet, we Clearly choose to Simply Ignore

So Who is Thankful Now?

The Corporations to whom we hand Money

Every Thanksgiving, Every Year?

Why Don't we Disappoint them?

Why Don't we return to Giving Thanks for the Harvest?

Why Don't we give Thanks to the People?

The People who Work in the Gloriously Grimy Soils

The People who Tend to the Gloriously Grimy Soils

The People who Harvest from the Gloriously Grimy Soils

Laboring day In; day Out

Through Daunting tasks

We would Never Deign to Deal with

To Deliver this Fare

This Earthy Corn and Beans and Squash and Turkey

Of Which we Take for Granted

All from the PEOPLE who work in the Gloriously Grimy Soils.