“Agricola & Avarice” by Michel-Vincent Corbeaux (read by Solomon Harries)

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You’re listening to Poetry Month on The Voice of Dog.

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This is Rob MacWolf

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your fellow traveler,

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and Today we present a poem

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by Michel-Vincent Corbeaux,

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who has perfected his craft of poetry for over a decade,

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and may be commissioned

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for his poetry via notes on his FurAffinity account,

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or via email at mivielkins@gmail.

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mivielkins@gmail.com. His goal is to self-publish his first collection of poetry, From the Plume,

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soon. Read by Solomon Harries,

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the Cuddly Badger Dad Please

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enjoy “Agricola & Avarice”

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a poem by Michel-Vincent Corbeaux

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A farming deer, at rest from sowing seed,

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Was visited by merchant wolves displaying

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“Our finest prize - this hen - its gilded laying;

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“Such wealth from these will satisfy your need!”

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They demonstrated truth in word and deed, And so, the deer would sell his farm for paying

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Of easy treasure, and instead of staying In diligence, he fast succumbed to greed.

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But then at night a vixen thief was prying

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And made her way into his home to see

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The hen, that soon her feast it was to be.

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So as she sprang upon the hen now dying,

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The deer returned to cries that ruined glee;

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Here all his hope of health and wealth did flee.

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It caused the fox to state a truth, replying “‘Tis

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always best to struggle truly free,

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“Than bound and shackled to prosperity.

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prosperity.” This was “Agricola & Avarice” by Michel-Vincent Corbeaux,