accountant visit

Farmer Brown is off to town

the accountant to meet

with bin liner of invoices

and the odd receipt

browsing the grubby pages

and margins full of notes

written in Browns spider script

the action he promotes

the removal of battery hens

the compassionate will approve

bigger pens for the sows

and farrowing crates removed

the hens that go out to feed

at night have nesting box

the egg laying down on last year

thanks to a greedy fox

the malting barley failed the grade

now only used as feed

the wheat grown for the bakers

was not quite what they need

the beef and lamb at market

prices never soared

are well below expected 

with cheap meat from abroad

the accountant said diversify

its the only thing to do

had he thought of ostrich

snake or kangaroo

as the accountant read on

he looked grave and ill

as he couldn't find any cash

that Brown could pay his bill