from the news

from the news A tomato met a non-tuber plant  sweet music a birth to what is known as potatoes, these days also called fries Just think if the tomato had not  been so unfaithful trying it on with any passing plant What would  our diet be like  without the beloved spud  I read this in a paper that extols the free press With the mild hand of exceptions  These days, the paper has fallen on hard times and had sold out to real estate not the two-up and one bathroom  houses in the millionaire class, after all One has to show class This morning, an article about jellyfish, that In my youth, there were plentiful along the coast of Norway, some of them stung Now we have to go to the Outer Hebrides to Find one in shallow pools What I took away from the morning paper was of potatoes, tomatoes, and the selling of posh  houses