Check out this USDA website link to learn more about the benefits of bees and why the honey bee epidemic directly effects us:
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/mar04/form0304.pdf
Pink Flamingo comes from the idea that the plastic pink flamingo is a symbol of American wealth and waste — we are putting plastic pink birds in our yard while others struggle to put food on the table. As I contemplated this one day after a discussion with some friends, I came up with this little rendition of "Tiger Tiger Burning Bright," and it may not be great, but I enjoyed writing it...
Pink Flamingo burning bright
In the suburbs of Cleveland Heights
What offended moral eye
Didst burn you ‘neath the cherry tree?
Under what smoggy city skyline
Do the homeless — shivering — dine
Over the fire of your plastic hide
With only the stars in which to confide?
And what bleeding heart and what damage
Can be mended by poisonous rage?
And when the plane’s roar is heard
Will it all be suddenly absurd?
What the siren? What the cuffs?
As the famished flee without enough.
What the shank? What bloody hand
Reaches out like a sailor spotting land?
When the bombs drop and the money flows
And empty bullets kill killing pros
Do we lay awake, staring at ceilings in misery
Calling from under our silk sheets, “why, why, why me?”
Pink Flamingo burning bright
In the suburbs of Cleveland Heights
What offended moral eye
Didst burn you ‘neath the cherry tree?All for now. Remember to support your local farmers, it is National Farmer's Market Week!
Cheers, yo.
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