a kingdom of rotten tomatoes they spit their seeds for the harvest of tomorrow one over the other they topple waiting for instructions "i'm waiting for the day to live" one says over the other one over the other
a red pool of friends everything's my favorite in between the cumbersome vines they hear of the escape the hand that reaches up into nothingness and picks the chosen one ripe for plucking, into a palm if you're lucky a unexplained romance to be devoured don't leave us here to fall, they cry berry of the nightshade come closer their potassium-deficient king is lifted from his ill-ridden bed and fed feast into the sweet juice of a fruit ready to die 'a milky embrace between the tomato queen and i'