<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=493741" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Agrarian Tenant</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">eddie is the guy<br>he used to be a lover of women in the town<br>when his father Toldo died<br>he inherits</div><div style="margin:10px 0">tenancy, and so he married early<br>got six kids, wife ligated, and lived a<br>simple life beside a<br>ricefield, on the empty</div><div style="margin:10px 0">fields he can see the black crows<br>and the sparrows<br>and the scarecrows, for year and years<br>he</div><div style="margin:10px 0">tilled the land left by my forefathers<br>as we finish our courses<br>this time i come back to see him<br>how</div><div style="margin:10px 0">old has he become, emaciated, deep brown skin<br>dry long hair, cracking lips, <br>gnarled fingers, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">i though he too would not recognize me<br>we had a talk about the farm and the rice<br>produce, the cost of fertilizers and pesticides<br>and the chinese cartel<br>and the massive importation from vietnam<br>killing all of their dreams</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i have not done my duty, but here he is<br>surviving on few grains left<br>on salted fish</div><div style="margin:10px 0">all his children gone<br>domesticated in other homes of the rich<br>few in Hongkong<br>one in Dubai the other one opens her parlor<br>in Vigan</div><div style="margin:10px 0">at the end, there is only the two of them<br>his ligated wife and himself<br>unbending.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ric+S.+Bastasa">Ric S. Bastasa</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=493741" data-title="The Agrarian Tenant de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="eddie is the guy he used to be a lover of women in the town when his father Toldo died he inherits tenancy, and so he married early got six kids, wife ligated, and lived a simple life beside a ricefield, on the empty fields he can see the black ..."></div> </div> </div>

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