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11 Haikus About the Produce Market

   
 

The cardboard boxes
Get recycled and reused.
A circle of squares.

   
 

Water the produce.
Fold and recycle boxes.
Put ice on the corn.

   
 

Must produce produce.
Gotta feed the people.
A man with a plan.

   
 

The aprons are green.
Green like the leaves of lettuce.
It's like camoflauge.

   
 

When I'm at work my
Mind wanders to kill boredom.
Fruit ends up on floor.

   
 

This rank, sour smell of
Rotten produce won't wash out
Of my skin and clothes.

   
 

On hot summer days
Glad I'm stocking milk in a
Refrigerator.

   
 

There's one customer
Who winks at me. I fear she
Is plotting to kill me.

   
 

You insult me and
You seem to forget that I
Am holding a hose.

   
 

A job is a job.
A paycheck is a paycheck.
But filth is still filth.

   
 

Braeburn, Granny Smith,
Golden Delicious, Fuji,
Gala, Macintosh.

 

—Victor Vazquez quit his job at the produce market and now they won't give him discounts on yams.


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