Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables by Ella Wenke
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Text Transcript:
Editors Note: The original typesetting of this poem was not replicated identically in this transcript.
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
the consumer as the world
the world produced for the consumption of humans
lost
the consumer as
the fungi
the cause of spoilage
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by some paranormal
entity
pattern
god
the collective minds of humanity as rot
rot(s) may refer to
a pattern
a god
a girl
lost
“Alone”
“Alone”
“Alone”
“Alone”
“Alone”
can indicate the presence
the extent of the spoilage
ROT (disambiguation)
the world
a girl
acidifying
fermenting
disintegrating
other methods include salting, curing, canning
should be kept out of the Danger Zone
Noun
twentysomething (plural twentysomethings)
A person whose age is between twenty and twenty-nine years, inclusive; someone in their twenties.
the process of decomposition
beyond the point of human appeal
the process of drying out
products that are at or past their “sell by” dates
or are imperfect in any way
edible, but often not sellable
that do not meet cosmetic standards
(“entirely alone, solitary, single”)
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