Farmers weekly

It's that time of the week
the family all dread
There will be no mischief
till the Farmers Weekly's read
Farmer Brown flicks the pages
his rages never fail
when he comes upon the page
of farms up for sale


that well appointed property
in a vale of verdant green
where no rusty tractors
or old machinery to be seen
sheep in adjacent field
well shorn no patch of bald
no sign of scour at the back
no foot rot or scald


the cattle in the pasture
well fed and straight of back
with a shiny coat and healthy
all his cross-breds lack
there are poultry in the farm yard
no droppings or bits of straw
unlike Browns scrawny critters
pecking at the door


the farm is so attractive
a sale there's bound to be
to the just plain lucky
of the peasantry
Browns farm was just like this
before he bought a cow
so many years of falling prices
who would buy it now?