Troublesome Tumbleweed

Invasively intrusive it stumbles and falls rolling in bundles of entangled balls 
Accidental and aimless so randomly unplanned 
boisterously blowing across the deserted sand
Like cowboys, wagon trains and buffalo
Tumbleweeds are icons of the old wild west show

Legends lie from bygone years
that Russian immigrants with hopes and fears
arrived in sunny South Dakota carrying flax seed
 that was trampled and trodden with horse hoof stampede
Betwixt and between that Soviet flax seed 
invisibly invading was Russian thistle, today’s Tumbleweed

Tho they are romantic symbols of our wild west love affair 
These twisted balls of dead foliage spread everywhere
Tossing and tumbling in tresses of trouble
the brittle, bushy labyrinthine multiplies amidst the hubble and rubble
No man nor machinery can stop this grotesque greed
as the wild westerly wind blows the Tumbleweed