open pastures and quivering lakes
geese chortling, flowers blooming and vegetables developing

granny-mama's unpretentious plainspoken vegetable garden
so advantageous and hearty, yet appalling

unlike her beautiful tempting flower garden
enthralling and efflorescence , yet filled with thorns

as i waste away in the ancient depraved lawn chair on the edge of the water
i begin to think about the past me and who i would become

i swam in the shallow water for a few months
as i grew older slowly into the vegetable everyone desired

when my season was over people began to admire the flowers around me

i became irrelevant in the shallows, so i took a step towards the drop off

i became a ravishing flower that no one wanted to hold or pick because the thorns on my stem would leave scars forever

i soon couldnt swim any longer
so i began to drown deeper into the water
with the rest of the beautiful flowers that wanted to fit in