Queer Facts About Vegetables In 1893, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the tomato is a vegetable (for taxation purposes), even though botanically it fit the definition of a fruit. I know I am a nightshade, it says to its own limp vine. I know how to burst against teeth with my juice and seed. I'm as small as a thumbnail, no, I'm as big as the harvest fucking sun. I'm fresh blood on a small curled fist. I can be a boy, I know, but never a man. I can be Sunday gravy or a pickled green. This is still the tomato talking to the vine, as told to me. Oliver Baez Bendorf
He Tells Her He tells her that the earth is flat— He knows the facts, and that is that. In altercations fierce and long She tries her best to prove him wrong. But he has learned to argue well. He calls her arguments unsound And often asks her not to yell. She cannot win. He stands his ground. The planet goes on being round. Wendy Cope
thinking about "queer facts about vegetables" by @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social and "he tells her" by wendy cope this morning; they feel painfully relevant, to say the least.
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