This week, a flawless organic California avocado is $2.89 at our local grocery. They are out of season now, so prices will get worse before they get better. I buy an avocado every week, regardless of the cost; they are essential to my happiness. Last year, when Kroger put them
on sale for $1.00 each, I raced over to get some, visions of guacamole dancing in my head:
AVOCADO
a parody of Edgar Allan Poe’s Eldorado
I browse a while
In the produce aisles
Wheeling up and down rows
Hot on the trail
Of a massive sale
On my favorite, avocados
Where fleshy fruits
In dark green suits
Should have lain in neat rows
To my chagrin
Is an empty bin:
SOLD OUT of avocados
A stockboy’s near
So I bend his ear
Will there be more tomorrow?
He hurries back,
His handcart stacked
With crates of avocados
Over the mountain,
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