old farmer

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battling weeds -
the old farmer sprays poison
on his fields


At age 82, he is too weak now to plant anything on the large fields and can not even keep up with cutting the weeds regularly, so today he and his old wife took the great poison spray buckets and sprayed his former fields.

This will be his final battle, since with that kind of poison, nothing worthwhile will grow there for quite some time! And his children are not inclined to come back to this closeknit rural community.


This is the reality of much of rural Japan !



we met him before:

his last apple tree


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Read my Haiku Archives 2007


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