April 29:: "Ambition Shall Be Glanced At"

"Ambition Shall Be Glanced At"*

I pick through the tender
baby romaine feeling
for the grit and hoping not
to find slime. Offerings packaged
in the clear plastic bins, are strapped
around tight like a pinched
belted trouser. I spin
the lettuce dry and abandon
it into the salad bowl, augment
with other ingredients, which
colour and bind, in Caesar's name.


* Julius Caesar: I, ii