Ode To Broccoli

• James Dabin, Grade 6
• Poetry
• 2022

Oh broccoli
you're horrible, can't you see
no one likes to eat a tiny tree!
your squishy top and weird stalk
you'd only swear if you could talk.

you stink like rotting cow manure
and taste like a rat filled city sewer.
you're practically a booger on a stick
just a sniff of you makes me sick.

I don't know why my parents keep you around
if it were me i would bury you in the ground
oh broccoli you're worse than rotting cheese
oh how i want to dump you in the seven seas.