I WANT TO SELL YOU

(Music: I WANT TO TELL YOU, Harrison) (info./disclaimers [0]) (glossary [0]) (index [0]) (gardening guide [0])

I want to sell you
I'm tired of giving good food away
But it's weird
I never know what to do at the end of the day

Farmers markets are funny
We overharvest and they underbuy
Pick less next week
We'll be sold out 'fore half the day's gone by

If we all had gardens things would be fine
Our harvesting would be in line
With what we needed

When I first grew you
You looked so happy in your place in the sun
So healthy and fine
Harvesting you just wasn't any fun

But now I'm selling you for cash
To get the money to buy the gas
To pay to get you here

I want to sell you
I don't know what will happen to you
Will you be food
Or will the soup kitchen even recognize you?

Should I compost you?

What should I do?

Comments: The Beetless are all too familiar with the plight of many vegetables and the farmers who steward them in this existence. This song demonstrates their empathy, while shedding light on a regrettable situation and suggesting a more desirable alternative. Surprisingly, they don't mention Community Supported Agriculture, a farmer-consumer partnership in which shareholders typically receive a weekly basket full of various vegetables in exchange for a yearly fee and often some level of participation in the farm. (See CSA DAY, in Lost Songs section.)