SETASIDE

Summer thumbs more used
To shelling peas than peeling
Shells from Christmas almonds,
But marzipan won’t wait for
The ingredients of the season,
And anyway the farmer let his
Field of sweetest legumes fester
For the sake of subsidies,
And I don’t need a green
Moment right now.

I’m making my cake and keeping
It for a later date when the
Need for a sweet out ways my
Salad days and I will have
No care for calories or their
Specifics. Print a sell by date
Upon my overcoat and I’ll
Outgrow it even if it means I
Have to rot more thoroughly
Than any farmer’s field.