'Fenugreek' Underbelly Poem by Douglas Scotney

Muse of Persistence
for its smell when cooked.

From fenum graecum,
Greek hay.

Used to scent hay, inferior and off.
To horse and cow, like sugar to us.

Cons cows into eating
what unconned they wouldn't touch
(or nowhere near as much.)

Therefore Muse of Deception;
Disguise and Conspiracy too.

And Racism:
slurring the race of the Greek nation.

Call it Trigonella: its name
after its corolla's form.

Lessen our shame.