MAY PLANTING TIME – 2005

When Halloween was over and the fields were clean and light;
She turned into a scarecrow, and it happened overnight.
Her plumbing had been acting up for something like a year.
Until it finally called it quits and really stripped a gear.

They poked her with an icepick, equipped her with a spout;
Then hooked her up to a machine to wash her insides out.
It’s been six months ago, today, since that November morn;
And now it’s time, again, to plant those fields of corn.

She still looks like a scarecrow and they wonder if she’ll last
Until the corn and beans get up and start to growing fast;
When scarecrows will be back in vogue to keep the crows away,
And she’ll be out there, right in style, until Thanksgiving Day.

-- Helen Ewoldsen --5-2-05