Loganberry

Take one raspberry and one black
Squish them up into a jam
And what you have is not a loganberry
It isn’t even proper jelly, man
What you need is cross-pollination
A Raspydad and blackberry mam
Then you get a baby loganberry
A freak of nature mad scientist’s plan
Once you start the grade is soapy slick
Ligers, mules, and cockerpoos expand
Mermaids, broccoli, the crazy boysenberry
And, scrape the slaughterhouse floor… spam


(Poetry Scales 67)