# 16 Drifting Away

Farmers and plant experts - It was totally consensual - to fight off aggressive weeds - required notarization - a highly volatile chemical - in a sexless culture - they killed it - in the busiest year of my life - it was supposed to protect them - demonizes it in any form - Yet the incentive to try it - We imagined chaos - cash-back incentives - shame-ridden and vilified - sprayed it on the plants - an innocent touch on the shoulder - engineered to resist - Good plants will fall ill - it's safe when properly used - a constant state of victimhood - we drifted away - in the wake of the moral panic - from where it was sprayed - It doesn't sound like any fun