Hierarchical paradigm of the Amish community

After reading the novel titled

Broken English by Paul L Gaus...

accentuating, exhibiting, incorporating...

the Amish, whose long history of farming

with horses and mules, dates back

to when horse-drawn plows

first used to break up the earth.

While some newer Amish farms

use tractor-drawn equipment,

many Amish farmers still prefer

to use horse-drawn implements.

Said sturdy and simple contrivance

sports prominent envious society

regarding yours truly,

who feels tethered to capitalist construct

gagging me with unremitting yoke.

Hence, I experienced being woke

at mine incompatibility

inured my entire life

to the abstract codas, credo, dogma,

ethos, karma, mores, precepts...

constituting western civilization.

How quaint to bare witness, where townsfolk

congregate to resolve community conflicts

suspicious should an hyperconscious,

and pugnacious "English" poke

their figurative noses

where they don't belong kinsfolk

of sect who sell dried tobacco

foodstuffs, crafts evoke

hankering (regarding yours truly,

a run of the mill doubting Thomas)

to become linkedin

with a voluntary community

less restrive than

the so called "plain" people,

unencumbered with materialistic trappings

whereby assignments delineated

governed jump-started

by age and gender at birth

men assigned physical tasks,

while women linkedin to domestic role,

members of the sect

know their role from cradle to grave.

Aside from delineating

responsibilities predicated

on whether an individual

child, teen, or adult,

their culture allows,

enables and provides

self reliant lifelong skill sets.