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The Friday Poem: Will Basil Defect?
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Will Basil Defect? By Joel Fallon
Will Basil follow
when tomatoes are gone
and raised beds are quiet?
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I think chives will stay
And artichokes too, of course,
will hang around, scraggly and forlorn.
But Basil, pungent and sly,
may defect or merely go absent
without leave.
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Stay or go, No great loss.
A new crop of basil
can be recruited in Spring.
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