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Girls with Shovels

The press favors words from the young director
while his efforts and data project field awards.
Soon major camps are discretely formed as
favors and bent shovels inch through the camp.

Efforts and line items project field advance
while brave decisions yield the river complex;
favors and bent shovels inch through camp
where vegetation and formula soon are removed

while tough decisions yield the river complex.
Pressed upon the fires stampede
where vegetation and formula soon remove
any benefits gleaned from the past advance.

Pressed upon the fires stampede
yet the trembling fisheries are saved.
Any benefits gleaned from past advance
are surely headed for the girls in hard hats.

Yet the trembling fisheries were saved
and no one wants to raise the question
surely headed for the girls in hard hats:
was vegetation meant to suffer from strategy?

As no one wants to raise the question
the press waits quietly at the riverbank.
Was vegetation really meant to suffer
gleaned benefits from favors in camp?

The fire dispelled.  The awardees sleep.
The press favors words from this young director
on when decision benefits from past advance—
as soon major camps are discretely formed.

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