Veggies All Around

Give Peas a Chance

with apologies to John Lennon

Two-Peas– in - one -pod

Ev'rybody's talkin' 'bout
Calcium, potassium, magnesium, selenium
Sodium, lithium, this-ium, that-ium
Ium ium ium

(All we are saying is give peas a chance)
(All we are saying is give peas a chance)

(C'mon) Ev'rybody's talkin' 'bout legumes, heirlooms
Spring blooms, and crop booms
Canisters and canned goods, hiccoughs, and hiccups
Rabbits’ lunch habits, black-eyed, black eyes

(All we are saying is give peas a chance)
(All we are saying is give peas a chance)

(Let me tell you now) Ev'rybody's talkin' can revolutions
Thick solutions, innovation, scarification,
Soil rotation, oxidation, lipid creation
Mite invasions, mice infestations

(All we are saying is give peas a chance)
(All we are saying is give peas a chance)

Evr'ybody's talkin' 'bout, pods of cocoa
Lou Szathmary, Rose Marie, Little Marvel,
Chef Emeril, Gregor Mendel, green recessive
The Bean Stalker, Betty Crocker, ho ho ho, yeah, The Jolly Green Giant

(All we are saying is give peas a chance)
(All we are saying is give peas a chance)
(All we are saying is give peas a chance)
...

by Stuart Kurtz

in volume 4 issue 2

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