Ron: Are people like onions?
Ram: Well, that's one metaphor.
Ron: Then perhaps all that exists is what Szymborska calls "the idiotism of perfection".
Linda: Sounds good to me – better than the skin of discontent . . .

Onion - an art work by T Newfields Onion

Ahh,
those long, slender leaves
like waxy straws of green
curve down lazily
thickening towards
a papery base
to celebrate succulence!

Digging towards
your roots
& probing the earth
you branch out
feasting on water
through nano-tubules

"How much of us is biennial?"
I wonder

The Cutting Boards of Time
handle such questions
mincing, slicing, & peeling us
til we'
re stewed

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