February 16, 2015

POTATOES

There never will be a beauty contest for potatoes.

Honeydew Melons. Yes. Potatoes. No. No. No. 

Yet, sometimes some potatoes are redeemed.

People improve them 66 and 2/3 percent –

by baking them, by slicing them and making 

them twice-baked potatoes in their skins –

with tons of butter or sour cream or filled with

broccoli cheddar – or they are cooked and served

as potatoes au gratin. Wait!  I forgot the favorite

way to serve potatoes: mashed – with a dab of butter.

Or they become potato chips or French Fries. Great!

Then there are the other 1/3 –  the unfortunates:

boiled potatoes – the unnoticed, the ugly. These 

don’t receive any accolades or attention or stars.   

Come to think of it – even this poem of sorts about

potatoes - doesn’t have any grab or pizazz or sizzle.

Sorry potatoes! But I still prefer you to rice or pasta.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020