<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460258" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Heroic Carrot</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The floods have ruined the British vegetable growers.<br>Tough. But<br>the supermarkets will just buy elsewhere, <br>we'll hardly notice, apart from TV's brief comment...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This week, what of our organic vegetable bag<br>whose carrots are usually a joyful memory<br>of what carrots, pulled yesterday, used to, still can, taste like? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">- so this week, just one, huge carrot. The Great Survivor.<br>Gnarled, a giant among the pretty, washed, and fashionable ones <br>smiling under the golden light of supermarket shelves -<br>it looked as if it had fought battles, come through wars<br>which of course few want to be reminded of<br>by those old veterans with their tales of times<br>too testing of mortality for us to think about...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">eaten later, it would have a subtler taste -<br>of gratitude, of praise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A kitchen; a carrot; a man holding a knife, <br>on the edge of tears.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</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=460258" data-title="The Heroic Carrot de Michael Shepherd" data-description="The floods have ruined the British vegetable growers. Tough. But the supermarkets will just buy elsewhere, we'll hardly notice, apart from TV's brief comment... This week, what of our organic vegetable bag whose carrots are usually a joyful memo..."></div> </div> </div>

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