weed

Brian’s home sits on a dirt lot, where several chickens peck at the weeds next to a table under a large tarp that blocks the sun during hot summer months.

In reality, he’s deeply in the weeds of domestic politics in distant lands.

The roof leaked, the carriage horses’ ribs showed, and the flower gardens were overgrown with weeds.

A large swath of the country, from eastern Washington to western Arkansas, is currently facing an avalanche of hard and spiky bouncing beach-balls of the noxious, unpleasant weed.

"In films and comedy programmes it's funny to depict people who smoke weed as lazy and clumsy," said Jon.