CXAOS

The Beet is the most intense of vegetables

Beets are deadly serious

The Beet is the melancholy vegetable, the one most willing to suffer

The Beet is what happens when the cherry finishes with the carrot

The Beet is the ancient ancestor

of the autumn moon
the dark green sails

of the grounded moon-boat
stitched with

the veins of primordial plasma;
the kite string

that once connected

the moon to the Earth

now a muddy whisker

drilling desperately for rubies

Tom Robbins, from the forward to Jitterbug Perfume titled ‘Todays Special’, in what has to be the most intense page in a novel on beets