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Thus I picked the tomatoes!

Maybe a month of September I don’t really remember Went to North-east town of Shepparton From the awesome Melbourne To pick the tomatoes In need of some dollar Since life there is a rollercoaster
By Rajeeb Shrestha

Maybe a month of September

I don’t really remember

Went to North-east town of Shepparton

From the awesome Melbourne

To pick the tomatoes

In need of some dollar

Since life there is a rollercoaster


A giant Turkish slugger 

Used to pickup us as a huge honker

Playing the 90’s song;

“Money for nothing, chicks for free”

But he sings- sex for free

His Indonesian girlfriend smiles

As if that was a remark so sultry


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In the wasteland fields

To the far end,

All we can see is flak of tomato gilds

Thud, thud, thud!

The sound distant heard

Of the pickers picking and 

Tossing, again picking and tossing

The  tak tomatoes

As Indonesians called for the green-ones

Into the shallow bins

Thud! Thud!! Thud!!!

The sound that hounds 

Your top hood 

Early in the mood

To pick those tomatoes!

Unripen first 

Because ripen they thrust


Pick them up!

Pick them up!!

Till you fill the bin’s top

And when you gonna filler

The square mocha container

You would break your spinal tip  


Not only the poors

But also the richs 

Hand in hand picking

Those grassy-green tomatoes

In cars arrived the beautiful English women

And also the Spanish heramosa senora

The Turkish slugger mocked:

The savvy Spanish senora

“ your own tomatoes are red!”

That’s what is his trait tread

And thus! I picked tak tomatoes

Enjoying fixed moments of 

Lifetime experience!

As they say;

If nothing ventured,

Then nothing gained! 

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