Vegetables
I pointed out to the young man
of the supermarket
that the vegetables were wilted
and he laughed at my face
before he added two tomatoes
on the display tray
half rotten, repulsive tomatoes
red like blood of the man
shot by the policeman
and I wondered how to fix
all the anomalies of this world
before I concluded
the milk smelled almost rancid
and saying to the clerk
to feed the vegetables to his pigs
I walked out of the door
Manolis Aligizakis 