broccoli looks harmless by Robert Nunnally
I wish we could “lay like broccoli”
missed connections in Nashville, TN
We are each others missed connection.
We could be so great together, and we both can just feel it inside… I hate that I am not a part of your life, of your world. I think about you thousands of times each and every day… I wish you would, I wish you could…choose me. We both deserve to be happy, don’t we? Oh how often I imagine what that life must be like in that parallel dimension……
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This is the first MC I’ve found which incorporates a reference to a vegetable. If one were to look closely at a full head of broccoli, you’d see the crowns nestled between the stalks and leaves – fitting well and looking quite comfortable. Perhaps this is what our lovelorn Nashville poet was referencing by the phrase “lay like broccoli?” Hopefully the cauliflower isn’t too upset about being passed over…
Gentle Readers: Robert Nunnally’s “Broccoli Looks Harmless” made me smile as this often maligned vegetable really is a great nutritional fighter. If you were to describe yourself as a vegetable, which one would you pick – and why? (Secret revelation: the Chief Bottle Finder would describe herself as spinach.)
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“Lay like broccoli” manages to somehow be suggestive, romantic, matter-of-fact and amusing, all in one burst. Broccoli in response does looks extraordinarily relaxed, content even–but given the right environment, things can get pretty steamy, and positively yummy.
Thanks for including my little Creative Commons cartoon. To our friend in Nashville, I say: “just when you think things are a bit bitter and way too crunchy, then so many times something happens to make everything tasty and yet refreshingly sharp”. Here’s to love, happiness and contentment–and missed and found connections.
Awww… gurdonark… you are a lovelorn poet of vegetative proportions! 🙂 (does that even make sense? probably not… I’ll blame it on all the asparagus I’ve been consuming). Too often folks want to bury that green steamy goodness under a heavy blanket of cheese sauce but I find it blossoms with just a touch of sea salt and garlic. Here’s to love, happiness, contentment, and a daily dose of Vitamins A and K! 🙂