Mission accomplished
The main difference
between predator drones
and commercial airplanes
is the number of people involved in the flight,
and how those people react
when they hear the cries and screams
of little foreign babies.
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True story
My grandmother does things her own way.
She doesn’t pull weeds, or use weed killer
instead, she lays spare lumber on top of them
until they wither and die.
It’s eco friendly,
it’s not labor intensive
& at the end of the day, no one wants to question
a ninety year old Chinese woman who
this morning
smothered some dandelions with a door.
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An interesting, yet scary observation.
As for your grandmother, I think I had a Chinese professor in her mid forties or so. I didn’t dare question her. I just remember her tone of finality when she told me “Work on your tones” in first year Mandarin when I couldn’t say “I am Filipino” satisfactorily.
“Again,
again,
AGAIN!”
She made us repeat our sentences until we got the tones right. Then we had to repeat them with the acquired tones, ten times. I guess you can say she was weighing our bad accents down with spare lumber? Yeah.
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I like this. There is no waste in your pithy observations
Oh how I love closing ghe door on dandelions beautiful
This was some funny stuff, by the way I have to use the joke of the drones. That one was priceless.
My Grandmother just removed all the soil and replaced it with bluestone gravel, when her gardening days were over.The rain could still filter through, but nothing,even a weed ever grew.I would love to read more about your grandmother,sounds like a practical person to me.
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My Chinese roommate would put eggshells in her plants and slept on a board placed on top of her bed mattress. That is just the way things are done she would say, when I asked. Also she had an old Chinese proverb for everything. She was like a walking encyclopedia. Thank you for stopping by and liking my post. Be blessed today. Meghan
Your grandmother is a genius 🙂
Beautiful and simple 🙂
That is an ingenious way to get rid of weeds!
It’s funny the things that we refuse to question and also the reasons for our refusal.
Sounds like your grandmother has it all figured out.
I love the story about your brilliant grandmother. As well as being hilarious, it presents her as being a very astute and resourceful woman. Mission Accomplished is a lot more gritty, but cleverly written.
ways to deal with things in our world in different and not normal ways is exciting and often illuminating. We learn much from doing the unconventional. thank you for sharing. Hugs
thanks for the laugh…
This to me is very clever. ‘Mission Accomplished’ had me nodding and I expected the next bit to be on the same subject. But your gran’s story took me by surprise and delighted me. Then I found myself returning to the first as a comparison. Then making this comment. Both pieces will now reside in my mind as thought-provoking wisdom. If you don’t have a career in advertising it’s their loss. Truly, mission accomplished.
Both very amusing. I chortled 🙂
That joke on the drones though… 😀 😀 😀
I love this poem! Thank you for liking my post. I’ll be sure to keep an eye on your blog.
You are an incredibly talented poet. I love your work.
Haha, I love this. Glad I found you!
quality.
Haha! ‘smothered some dandelions with a door’ is just brilliant! Thank you!
reaction to screaming foreign babies… oh my gosh, out loud giggles on that one. I am a terrible person.
LOL…and with so few words.
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This is really great, perceptive stuff man!
Deliciously witty! Thank you!
I love your writing, you have such a great way of putting words together and making them sound brand new 🙂
I like your grandmother’s way, but…dandelions are a great food! The poem was fantastic though, and made me smile 🙂
This made me smile because it reminded me of my grandmother.
Hahaha…
Dandelions are absolutely beautiful. like freedom 🙂
For some reasons, I find your Grandmother cute in here HAHAHA