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