{"id":9039,"date":"2013-08-04T18:29:04","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T01:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruffledfeathersandspilledmilk.com\/?p=9039"},"modified":"2013-08-17T13:44:32","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T20:44:32","slug":"a-poem-from-penny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ruffledfeathersandspilledmilk.com\/?p=9039","title":{"rendered":"A Poem From Penny."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Theme and format borrowed from the Statue of Liberty and Emma Lazarus. Pig Liberty copied from Beaufort County Library.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Give me your pitted….<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Eggplants taste tested in the field. Should have salted them first.<\/p><\/div>\n

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your cracked and mushy,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Cherry tomatoes that cracked under the pressure of trying to provide for a family of 6.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Your wilted….<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Green beans after their green fades away. Because it's not easy being green and being left on the vine until the farmer gets around to picking.<\/p><\/div>\n

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and woebegone, too far gone to eat.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n


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I have no idea what happened here. But it looks painful.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The overgrown refuse….<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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10" long okra. Was only 2" long yesterday. I swear.<\/p><\/div>\n

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of your plants grown bushy.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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This was lettuce. Now it is a 4' Tower of Bitterness.<\/p><\/div>\n

Send these, the waterlogged, tossed to me,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Cucumbers: The new Water Melon.<\/p><\/div>\n

I lift my snout eagerly, right beside Pushy.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Penny, plagiarizing poet laureate<\/p><\/div>\n

Who knew pigs were poetic?\u00a0 And grateful for anything, anything that comes out of the garden.\u00a0 Pig on, ladies.<\/p>\n

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Gorging on garden garbage.<\/p><\/div>\n

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