On return to Taranaki
Fine Taranaki farms disintegrate At the touch of an Act Rolling pastures no longer rolling nor green Brown blistered mechanically scarred By earth-eating mechanisms with no heart, only hunger.
Milking sheds and grand Taranaki gates crushed Replaced by concrete and wire monstrosities
Men get jobs during depression Big money but false
Pressure on housing but suburbia arises Like the immortal Phoenix
From the ashes of what was natural.
The milk flow has ended
Only shit flows, down pipes to the sea A hive of activity almost a Beehive, eh?
Lynda Wadley 1983
Swandri’s and gumboots make way for white collars and hard hats While roads are up-graded miraculously for heavy machinery The M.O.W. pull finger to please unnatural.
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Tu Tangata, Issue 18, 1 June 1984, Page 40
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122On return to Taranaki Tu Tangata, Issue 18, 1 June 1984, Page 40
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