i'll take one tomato, please

what's the deal

with the farmers market?

is it the tomatoes,

the peaches,

the melons.

lettuce, maybe.

all free of DDT,

or Roundup,

or maybe it's the apple

cider freshly

squeezed by Marge

from Front Royal and beyond.

there's pastries

too,

pies of all kinds,

peach, lemon,

mince meat

and rhubarb. oh, look

there's

coffee and asparagus.

and

a long line

at the sausage stand

with a man

in a bloodied white apron

making change.

there must be something

here for me,

something

here for you.

how about a tomato?

they look so red, so round.