Queer Facts About Vegetables
In 1893, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the tomato is
a vegetable (for taxation purposes), even though botanically it fit the definition of a fruit.
I know I am a nightshade,
it says to its own limp vine.
I know how to burst
against teeth
with my juice and seed.
I'm as small
as a thumbnail, no,
I'm as big as the harvest
fucking sun.
I'm fresh blood
on a small curled fist.
I can be a boy, I know,
but never a man.
I can be Sunday gravy
or a pickled green.
This is still the tomato
talking to the vine,
as told to me.
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