Friday 2 August 2024

2nd August 2024

 



head kick

rips out my big toenail

sweet peas


© Rachel Green August 2024


why does a packaged salad

go off after six hours

when the individual items will last a week?

Lettuce stays fresh, even if the outside leaves

already resemble compost

and tomatoes become sweetest

just before they rot.

Spring onions do...whatever they do#

and carrots stay fresh for a fortnight.


But the supermarket salad I bought?

It's disgusting by lunchtime.


© Rachel Green August 2024


2 comments:

thermalsatsuma said...

Ouch! Hope that's not as painful as it looks!

Rachel Green said...

Alas, it was / is!