tomatoes are the new fruit, and will be
as long as I live within spitting distance of
vine rich dirt
what I call the `root beer effect` is achieved
through two parts summer exhaustion
and one part ice cubes cracking
in the glass, liquid foaming up
in pure amber bliss (in Japan we
settle for a pale imitation, diet coke)
these sudden pleasures, same as the deep
sugary ripeness of a Carolina watermelon,
the wet wet tang of a shelf ripe peach
(I can`t afford fruits here)
well, there are bananas, cheap as they go
and good in a monkey way
And the musk melon which my girlfriend brings
every year, a gift from her father`s colleagues
to her father, through to us-- perfectly wrapped,
no dirt on the skin... takes about a week to
make the effort to eat it, also sweet, short-lived.
