Weeds, More Weeds

In the 16th century, Japanese Shogun Hideyoshi Toyotomi dispatched a large military force to Korea, killing many Korean soldiers. Upon returning to Japan the Japanese soldiers brought back ears of the dead as war trophies, then buried them in a temple cemetery. Since I live in the suburbs in America and often weed, I thought about this historical fact and wanted to draw a eulogy for these ears. I imagined that these ears were everywhere in the earth, jostling to emerge under the sun, and attach themselves to roots, so whenever someone pulls weeds, they are yanked out from the underworld.