A most needed word

schlembesserung

an improvement that makes things worse 

 TRYING--no, not trying!     DOING!

Here I am again, on this prose journey, although that does remind me. I have an idea for a poem.

Shall I try?  I DO LOVE THAT SONG, DIRTY DEEDS AND DONE DIRT CHEAP.

DIRTY DEEDS

So much good comes from dirt

I wonder it's bad reputation.

Sustenance, obviously

And beauty

Both together, often. Have

You ever seen a stalk of Brussel sprouts?

Or Artichokes growing? 

How about a pomegranate tree?

I have one in my yard.

The way the pomegranate

Starts out: a pink flower

with delicate petals

But at its base a small

Roundish part in purple

I turns out that's where

The pomegranate is!

Who'd a thunk?

Every day that little pea-ish

Thing gets larger. Then

The petal starts to decay.

The next thing you know the pea

Is a full-on POMEGRANATE

FIVE inches in diameter.