I do a little light farming or heavy gardening, whichever ...
... farming is hard in my traveling profession ...
... quite often I'm not back home in time for my plowing or planting (that's awful) ...
... I knew the feds had been opening my mail for over 20 years ...
... reading all my personal, radical mail ...
... and it never bothered me because I figured them birds had to learn it somewhere...
... might as well be from my mail ...
... but then it occurred to me (in my predicament) having the FBI open your mail might come in handy ...
... I sent Sheila (my partner) a letter through the United States mail ...
... I said in it 'For god sake! don't plow up the backyard! that's where the guns are buried!' ...
... National Guard rolled up and dug up the whole backyard in time for me to plant the damn thing!
~ Utah Philips 1983