Incongruous
you are thinking perhaps
but oh, they are linked!
 
Think ‘Price!’, for a start
and the Chicago Board of Trade
World leader
bringing willing seller and willing buyer together
to find a price to sell, a price to buy
today and tomorrows too!
 
We’re planted deep
in the prairie soils
luxuriating in green growing crops
but, summer passing,
the crops mature
and harvest begins
where will the grain be used?
 
Nearby factories?
Southeast livestock?
Or will it move to water
barges and ships and faraway places?
 
How is price discovered?
What’s that magic number?
Chicago plays that role….
 
A fitting place for that to happen
as our nation provides for the world
The only major supplier
every year, not now and then
(Jimmy Carter the exception)
ships load on our shores
carrying away food
to a hungry world, a growing world
population up up up!