In the 90's
Vegetables were picked by hand if you could afford gloves you bought them
If you couldn't
You swallowed the pain and tried to keep up pace
The worst vegetables and fruits were many
From watermelons to squash
Those hard shells yet they felt soft
But each one of those watermelons felt like weights
Heavier by the second
Excruciating to walk to the next
All those tiny spikes felt like tinnier razor blades by the second
No hand was as they first were
My hands were tinnier then
Easier to get in but not fast enough to not get those millions of pricks
I imagine that's what people who have Arthritis feel on the daily
Imagine that feeling before you finished middle school
If it was an option would you choose it
Would you run into those fields and feel like a conqueror
Would you wake before the rooster sings
Before any sunlight shines
Have you tried touching it's stem and wrapping your hand to see what it feels like...
Would you even want to pick vegetables in rows
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REASONS
Ficción GeneralShort writing yet inspiring A child's perspective of early work Difficulties that happen Something to think about and for you to be grateful that it wasn't your story If it is your story too then we know how those conditions were and what we faced
