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Ode to a Tomato
I love you tomato.
You were passed up for an apple in the Garden of Eden.
The fall of mankind.
Not your fault.
Your juicy red innards send me shivers.
Now I must eat you.
(2012)
(Inadvertently channeled from a poem about a plum by William Carlos Williams)