Farmer Brown is off to town
the accountant to meet
with bin liner of invoices
and the odd receipt
browsing the grubby pages
and margins full of notes
written in Browns spider script
the action he promotes
the removal of battery hens
the compassionate will approve
bigger pens for the sows
and farrowing crates removed
the hens that go out to feed
at night have nesting box
the egg laying down on last year
thanks to a greedy fox
the malting barley failed the grade
now only used as feed
the wheat grown for the bakers
was not quite what they need
the beef and lamb at market
prices never soared
are well below expected
with cheap meat from abroad
the accountant said diversify
its the only thing to do
had he thought of ostrich
snake or kangaroo
as the accountant read on
he looked grave and ill
as he couldn't find any cash
that Brown could pay his bill
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