An organic dilemma 

 

Capricious, delicious, a matter of taste

Eat all you can; none of it waste.

It’s wholly organic, grown in red soil.

The farmers and workers till sundown they toil

To bring you the best; the best of the rest

Not only to taste, but also to test

If you can pay. For strange it to say

This trade is one-way.

Although they’re organic and nothing is added

The price you will pay is increasingly padded.

No poisonous sprays or harmful additions

Nothing but water and natural conditions.

But stop! Just a mo. What are you eating?

How do you know there’s not poisonous dung?

Or pieces of poo chocked full of maggots

Organically morphed into your carrots.

Are you sure they are safe, are you sure they’re nutritious

Or merely chimeras which make us suspicious?

Think about broccoli all the way from Peru

It may be organic but if only you knew

To fly from afar is carbon expensive,

To keep this veg coming needs transport extensive.

To drive to the port and fly over here

Needs petroleum products, and more every year.

So next time you’re faced with organic dilemmas

Think long and think hard that you’re not causing tremors

Adding to warming and locusts-a-swarming

To climatic changes and thunder-a-storming

Our oil it is finite and is on the way out 

Long distance organics will be no more than nowt.