A fearsome day, the parsnips rose,
abandoning fields and cozy furrows;
long the lay, biding their time
outstanding yields in winters prime.
Vengeance unleashed on all who ate
in times of peace their parsnippy bait
in squads they marched in winters heart
protesting to demand a fresh start
Inciting riots, filling the streets
with carrots, corn and hard line beets
with typical scorn it was dismissed
a political storm like never witnessed
before by humans building momentum
a long overdue vegetable addendum
bestowing on all kinds of edible plants
a growing list of incredible grants
to vote to read, to study and write
to sow their seeds wherever they might
to work and be free to pursue the sunlight
let no man impede their new found rights.
Beware the parsnips, their lust for control
prepare for their rule, ahead in the polls
the vegetable vote enough to swing
a whole election, a landslide win
year after year they increased in power
extended their reach to include each flower
towering beech and windswept pine
cowering shrub and gnarled vine
recruited to keep the humans in line
who disputed the rights of all plant kind
Downtrodden and lost, humans wailed
with billions of votes the veggies prevailed
when faced with their logic intellectuals quailed
as they covered the world in a chlorophyll veil.
last nail in our coffin the boffins set sail,
free at sea to plot an end to this horrible tale
Beware the parnsips, their lust for control
prepare for their rule, ahead in the polls
the vegetable vote enough to swing
the whole election, a landslide win
After barely escaping a coconut fleet
the boffins returned from their salty retreat
a plan set in motion, nearly complete;
to eat and to dine on all vegetable kind
and leaving behind at the scene of each crime
a sign that a parsnip had done the grave deed
and was feeding on veggies not of their own creed
Parnsips Undermined, Intellectuals Most Pleased.
