Tomato

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"Ode to Tomatoes"
The street filled with tomatoes,
midday,
summer,
light is halved like a tomato,
its juice runs through the streets.
In December,
unabated,
the tomato invades the kitchen,
it enters at lunchtime,
takes its ease on countertops,
among glasses,
butter dishes,
blue saltcellars.
It sheds its own light,
benign majesty.
Unfortunately,
we must murder it:
the knife sinks into living flesh,
red viscera a cool sun,
profound,
inexhaustible,
populates the salads,
happily,
it is wed to the clear onion,
and to celebrate the union we pour oil,
essential child of the olive,
onto its halved hemispheres,
pepper adds its fragrance,
salt, its magnetism;
it is the wedding of the day,
parsley hoists its flag,
potatoes bubble vigorously,
the aroma of the roast knocks at the door,
it's time!
come on!
and, on the table, at the midpoint of summer,
the tomato,
star of earth,
recurrent and fertile star,
displays its convolutions,
its canals,
its remarkable amplitude and abundance,
no pit,
no husk,
no leaves or thorns,
the tomato offers its gift of fiery color and cool completeness.

Tattoo

Look at this startling appearance of more Europorn trash!

This insanity must stop.

Oscar

Hot Diggity Dog! The Wienermobile turns 70

"The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile is 27 feet long and boasts a GPS navigation system, six mustard- and ketchup-colored seats and a V-8 engine."

The chick-mobile for the Euro_orn jet set.

Fishy

Oh where art thou friend of mine,
With tiger’s verve and lion’s pride,
Once so proud and full of grace,
My God what has happened to your…

I shan’t shed many more tears,
For the inevitable trek through the years,
Has done removed your smiled bliss,
And replace it with a forced grimace.

And should you need as it would seem,
A ear to listen or heart to bleed,
Look not to yonder spire or in dark deep depth,
For you may count on me and Dr. F.

For upon this bedrock of friendship we now sit,
Which some may call a pile of …,
But know not I and fear not because,
you cannot sing Happy Birthday in the tune of Like A Virgin.