Ode to the Potato
O practical
potato,
vegetable
most like earth,
among elegant asparagus,
intellectual egg-
plant
you are unpretentiously
spud
tasting only of stone,
you have nothing to hide.
are merely functional,
a most puritanical,
root.
o wave your green flags
democratic potato
you the equal
of any other
potato
Peter Goldsworthy