This Morning I Made Love With the Lettuce Picker

Image by Bobby Byrd "Lee's Lettuce Garden"


This morning I made love with the lettuce picker


Every year the lettuce picker plants
her lettuce in October.
Lettuce loves October in the Chihuahua Desert.
October passes and November comes.
The lettuce grows leafy and happy.
The lettuce picker slips out to the garden
in the morning.
I will not tell you how old I am.
I will not tell you how old she is.
But her legs are white, her rear end
is clad in purple pajamas
and is raised like a flag planted
in the dirt
for the preservation of love.
Today is Sunday, the day of Sabbath.
A day to remember ourselves.
A day to worship all that is holy.
This is what we do when we make love.


Bobby Byrd

Posted over on his site White Panties & Dead Friends