Potatoes

Oven at 200 for, say, 25 minutes

Come out perfectly

Laden feed for a laden people

Dark of latent need on a blatant treeless heath

Potatoes, Queens printed boldly on the dusty sack

Their weight in some sense their nature.

Easter closing in, I have deprived myself nothing

The greatest temptation of all

When the Devil himself councils mercy in his case

Stitched gracelessly the starchy paper sack’s underside

Behinds designed with eventual prolapse in mind.

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