<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=452607" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Attack of the Squash People</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">And thus the people every year <br>in the valley of humid July <br>did sacrifice themselves <br>to the long green phallic god <br>and eat and eat and eat. <br>They're coming, they're on us, <br>the long striped gourds, the silky <br>babies, the hairy adolescents, <br>the lumpy vast adults <br>like the trunks of green elephants. <br>Recite fifty zucchini recipes! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Zucchini tempura; creamed soup; <br>sauté with olive oil and cumin, <br>tomatoes, onion; frittata; <br>casserole of lamb; baked <br>topped with cheese; marinated; <br>stuffed; stewed; driven <br>through the heart like a stake. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Get rid of old friends: they too <br>have gardens and full trunks. <br>Look for newcomers: befriend <br>them in the post office, unload <br>on them and run. Stop tourists <br>in the street. Take truckloads <br>to Boston. Give to your Red Cross. <br>Beg on the highway: please <br>take my zucchini, I have a crippled <br>mother at home with heartburn. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sneak out before dawn to drop <br>them in other people's gardens, <br>in baby buggies at churchdoors. <br>Shot, smuggling zucchini into <br>mailboxes, a federal offense. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">With a suave reptilian glitter <br>you bask among your raspy <br>fronds sudden and huge as<br>alligators. You give and give <br>too much, like summer days <br>limp with heat, thunderstorms <br>bursting their bags on our heads, <br>as we salt and freeze and pickle <br>for the too little to come.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Marge+Piercy">Marge Piercy</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=452607" data-title="Attack of the Squash People de Marge Piercy" data-description="And thus the people every year in the valley of humid July did sacrifice themselves to the long green phallic god and eat and eat and eat. They're coming, they're on us, the long striped gourds, the silky babies, the hairy adolescents, the..."></div> </div> </div>

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