Mean Machine Poem by Susy Evelyne

Mean Machine

Rating: 5.0


Two men and their mean machine -
And it chews and spews like you've never seen.
You feed in poplar, you feed in lime,
And out fly woodchips, double-quick time!
It'll eat fifty-footers, that voracious machine.
Now do you call that progress?
Or call it obscene?


Written 2007, copyright Susy Evelyne

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
About a shredding machine that 'ate' the branches and trunk of a beautiful tall poplar tree - and now there's a gap. Written 2007 and published in Black Chiffon Dress and other poems of the heart.
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Susy Evelyne 14 November 2013

The saddest thing was it was a magnificent, healthy tree, not growing too near to a house - but the owner of the garden preferred decking.

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John Brown 11 November 2013

I suppose the question is: why did the tree have to be felled. It could have been diseased or something. Over to you Susy.

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Khairul Ahsan 01 November 2013

'Now do you call that progress? Or call it obscene? ' I call it obscene and I give you 10/10 clean! A short, wonderful poem.

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