half asleep being caressed by the sound of waves,

I noticed the rather cryptic list of ingredients

printed on the side of our empty salad bottle.

Just fifteen minutes earlier, monosodium glutamate, polydiglicerides, and ascorbic acid,

danced in a single file stream, passing over your lips, gently,

gliding with grace, to your stomach, anxiously awaiting absorption.

How I envy those chemicals and wish that just this once -

I wouldn't be so concerned, with organic gardening.