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79 CASTROVIllE, CAlIFORNIA—A SONNET O thistle-like artichoke in the place of glory. Green peppers: four lushly framed nudes staring down on us with a kind of greasy grace. Purple and green eggplants like immodest prudes. And apples of heroic size, left to right like paintings of smugly pompous ancestors. Broccoli plus pale mushrooms in the moonlight, whitely bulbous omniscient lecturers On the care and curatorship of fruit and vegetables, which play more a part in our lives than the sad-eyed, ruling dupes who clutter up our walls displacing fruits. I never did before, but now I will: I sing, dear friends, of brave plain Castroville. This page intentionally left blank. ...

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