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Ode to Potatoes
Potatoes: The perfect food
With enough nutrition
Pursuing my mood
With admission. Potato chips,
Sweet potato, Potato salad,
French Fries, Potato wedges,
Mashed potato, Coming in many forms.
The potato is a warrior
That journeyed through the undergrowth
As a runaway.
It travelled in a truck
All the way to
The grocery store
Just to find me.
Its desire was to be
Peeled,
Deep fried,
Then salted to perfection.
The mighty warrior fought
For its desire to find battlegrounds
To have a fight
In a human stomach.
The warrior is true to its duty
To help fight against the war
Of hunger.
But every warrior must be sacrificed
In this task.
May all the potatoes
Rest in peace
For one day, they’ll be warriors once again.
The loss of our warriors
Have given us strength
Of nutrition to fight
Starvation.
We will miss you potatoes
As you journey through the undergrowth
And find a place to rest in peace
After all of your hard work.
Your skin may be frail and uneven,
But in the inside,
You are as pure and hard as gold,
With a true heart
Of a warrior.
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This poem was inspired by Pablo Neruda and his odes to interesting topics like his socks, tomatoes, or even to a fish.