swedes - not rape
A sowing
grew like rape,
too-thick, they
call it Canola
in Newspeak now,
I was too busy or too easy
to thin them,
-so cabbage-leaf glutted
they all runted
in together...
I let them age
until I heard
demand had little supply,
then
I cut them,
lopped top stems, cut
each root aside
to point the yellow flesh
from the radicals away
then boxed,
off to market,
the public bought them!
Once re-imaged as
'Baby Tasmanian.'
1996 © Wayne D Knoll
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