If you have the money,
Why not spend it creating
Your very own miniature totalitarian state,
In your very own garden?
Surround and secure your territory
With hedges, trimmed into regular
Rectangular configurations.
Install wrought iron gates to control all migration.
Only allow grass to grow in designated lawns,
And nowhere else;
Ensure each blade of grass is exactly cut
To a uniform length;
And that every one is of the same
Species and colour.
Astroturf is not an acceptable substitute,
Because it would not involve
Making living things submit to your will.
Arrange other selected pure-bred plants
At precisely equal intervals in borders
That are made in accurate geometrical shapes
Only squares, paralellograms and triangles will do.
Use fire, iron, chemical and biological means
To eradicate all intrusive plants, insects,
Invertebrates and other creatures
Install automatic security lights and video
To enhance surveillance.
The sky may still be unruly,
And the weather unpredictable,
But just ignore them and gloat,
Over your New Horticultural Order.
