Sustainability

The neighbor told everyone except the farm. Twelve names, the same two questions, and a sheet where the repeated complaint is counted instead of remembered.

The discount at the input counter is the only part of the tie anybody can describe. The capital and the vote are the other two, and nobody is checking either.

A half morning of grader time, an animal at the community festival and half a tank of diesel all went out through the gate this year, and none of the three has a line anywhere.

The institution proposing the trial already has a written agreement process of its own. The farm is the side that usually ends up without a copy of anything.

The radio goes off and the operator leaves the field. Those hours are already being paid for. What is missing is the half page saying how many, who says yes, and where each release gets written down.