Police - The Suck-In Grower Poem by Paul Warren

In around the northern areas of Adelaide
There were glasshouses and market gardens made
And there were groups of these farmers who grew
And sold marijuana as well as tomatoes too

They were a shrewd lot and they know how to deal
Marketing anything means you have to keep it real
And know that you have to play the percentages now
So they would set up fringe players to take the rap and bow

A market gardener was talked into growing weed
In a deal where they would finance the gunja with a lead
The plants grew well and it looked like a bumper crop
With the market gardener seeing he would make a lot

But there was another agenda playing out
To be sucked into the deal meant a tip off about
So a telephone call went to the local gendarme
A crop was growing and dobbed the gardener in with glee

So the raid happened and the gardener was caught out
And during the arrest he broke a copper's nose with a clout
The gardener ended up with a cultivation of drugs charge
And the cartel had released pressure on them at large.

© Paul Warren Poetry