Plain Spring Onions Poem by RIC BASTASA

If you only see plain spring onions
put beside a plate with sunny side up
fried egg
by all means you are normal and
live simply like all the rest

but if you say otherwise: saying that it
is an ovum fertilized by sperms, and
make other stories like, a teenage girl
is having sex with her Philander, or
that Psyche had a love affair with Cupid,
or that to avoid unwanted pregnancies
the man should have used Trust condom
or that the woman should have used
pills, or that someone has been fooled
by another into meaningless sex,

if you have this sense of imagination,
then i have to welcome you here,
you are creative, and you are one of us.