70spoems/potatoes

POTATOES

Used to be potatoes weren’t important,
no one said where we were from,
I forgot to wonder,
forgot, too, to eat potatoes,
turned my time to pizza and enchiladas.
Need other comforts now,
rockers and porch swings,
screen doors with hooks flapping.
I take down my iron skillet,
I fry potatoes.

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