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[sid] => 75810
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[aid] => mick
[title] => A Lifestyle Lost
[time] => 2004-12-14 19:56:26
[hometext] => A destruction of a way of life
[bodytext] => The silos dot the prairie land As they conspicously guard the farmers stand Tall and erect they jut up into the sky Shaped like torpedoes aimed at enemies passing by The missiles are ready to lauch from their firing pad In defense of those farms not yet gone bad The targets would seem to be The banks that extended credit indiscriminately Full of feed and crops the silos used to be Now many stand completely empty While farming on a large scale still survives The family farm has pretty much met its demise The number of farmable acres continues to decilne Ini favor of land being diverted to real estate finds What a travesty these empty silos signal From one encampment to the other, no money jingles Out of ammunition the farmers share They watch the failure of their family farms to compare What they had, to what they have now Many sold everything, even their cows Forced into surrender in defeat For with the banks they could no longer compete Eventually the silos will crumble and fall No longer able to take care of it all A whole lifestyle is disappearing before our eyes The death of the small family farm you could eulogize As I look out across the rolling land Not nearly as many silos still stand [comments] => 5 [counter] => 254 [topic] => 21 [informant] => Willofree [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 25 [ratings] => 5 [editpoem] => 0 [associated] => [topicname] => Lifepoems )
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