DBSK Flashfic Challenge

The Farmer flashfic challenge is now closed. The response is tagged.

Famine by twhitesakura

The next flashfic challenge prompt is this poem, suggested by beauty0fparting:

"The Farmer" by Jeffrey McDaniel

There's a field where I grow only bruises,
inner gnawing, and heartache.

Each Saturday I harvest the crop,
haul it to the open-air market, and sell it
straight from my flatbed truck

Fresh agony only three bucks a bushel.
Sun-dried torment by the pound.

Seven years running, my pain
has been voted best in the region,
and while I'm not wealthy,

in my own small way,
I help keep the village alive.

Flashfic is 100 to 1000 words, but longer responses to the flashfic prompts are allowed. Flashfic challenges run for two weeks. This one ends 1 June 2012.