Horticultural Life Smalls: TOO WHITE

was darwin too white too?


Baby squash:
I bought
the same seed
like other years
–for the Baby White
button squash,
with the slight
green-tinted bloom

But at market
they were a dud!
White? That's too pale!
Three intense acres
intensely wasted.
Half a livelihood
in rampant waste...

There's a new strain!
A trendier cultivar...
- like coloured babies -
everybody wants
to have the ones
with the fresh green tint,
for that
latest Eye-Catch
of cuteness
in baby squash.

1996 © Wayne David Knoll
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