Changeing ways

Changing Ways

The white gloved hand of progress
is killing small bakeries in the land
where I live; Dona Francesca’s shop
has closed and no more fresh bread
and cakes on a try for all to see and
inhale, she couldn’t meet the demand
of shiny machinery and pure hygiene.
Her bakery has sot black walls and
stone floor. A big van comes to our
village now, sells long lasting sliced
bread, safely wrapped in plastic, cakes
ditto, full of additive and artificial
aroma too. No surprises here, such as
a cockroach trying to look like a prune.