Faith In Plants
by Fred L Taulbee Jr.
11/16/09
I have no Faith in plants
I keep them at my house and office
To clean the air and make things look not so spartanly
masculine
But I don’t know what I’m doing
When it comes to taking care of them
It’s not like cooking
I figured that out
I’m pretty good at that
But plants I can’t figure out
I overwater them and they die
I underwater them and they die
I fertilize they die
Too much sun they die
transplant die
They get yellow, the edges brown,
They droop as if very tired
Oh, the fucking
fragility of it all
The delicateness with which we must take care of things
Or maybe I’m just overdoing it like you always said
Of course, I’m not just talking about plants
It’s you I’ve done all of this to as well
It’s you I miss.
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