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TOMATOES

Summer is sinking your teeth into a
robust red tomato.

Feeling the funny tingle
of juice traveling down your chin.
That once green circle
now scarlet and scrumptious.

This year the broken soil
births a bumper crop
of summer
and salutation to life.