Motherfucking Suburbia
The silver rain
The shining sun
the fields where scarlet Poppies run
and all the ripples of the wheat
are in the bread that I do eat
So as I sit at every meal
and give thanks
I always feel
that I am eating rain and sun
and fields where scarlet Poppies run.
Amen. Blessings on our meal. Guten Appetit!
I don't know who wrote this poem. We learned it from Kim, a lady I used to be friends with whom I learned a lot of really cool things from but ended up not being able to maintain a normal friendship with. This morning while my girl's were reciting this, as they do before all meals, I realized that they are so far removed from any of the words to it that they are saying something they totally don't understand. They all know what wheat looks like and that it is ground into flour for baking bread but none of them have ever seen a field of wheat growing and known it was wheat or know what is meant by the ripples. I don't think any of them have ever seen a scarlet Poppy either. How sad. Maybe someday we will live near fields of wheat.
Posted by gwendolyn on September 24, 2004 at 09:48 AM