Ode to Tumescent Tuber Tumors

Consider the lowly spud, a handful of calories, potassium and fiber,

Time to regenerate new spuds with right warmth and moisture.

In the darkness, stored nutrients start to develop from eyes

Actual embryonic shoots as long, thick, multiple sprouts

From a wrinkling, shriveling body with soft spots turning green

Signs of increased glycoalkaloids, toxic if eaten.

But, what if, body politics propagates an entity that sprouts

Experiences never seen before … mixing allies with enemies,

Tariff-tumbling markets, people disappearing from streets

Shackled in mega prisons trafficked for exchange of money;

Purges, economic illiteracy from unpredictable bobble heads

Where polar bears, penguins and civil rights aren’t safe;

Where truth is fiction and imperial dreams troll the laws…

What malignant metastasis will root deeply into democratic soil?

Mary Berukoff

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