poem lo -- a chinatown treat
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		in seventeenth century
		in the age of the voyages of discovery
		a certain pacific-going captain shaddock
		had the luck of having a non-grapefruit named
		after him, no, not pomelo, yes, the shaddock
		just a sibilance of a docked s away
		from a tasty oily fish
		named already.

		as for pomelo, the name poem lo uses for shaddock
		the grapefruit, well, the closely related non-grapefruit
		citrus fruit
		it is a corruption of a dutch name
		not a spanish or portuguese name
		doubtless named after something someone or other.

		karen's fridgerator had a half a shaddock
		oooh karen what's that
		that's a pomelo that's right
		bought in chinatown

		we cleave the pomelo we eat the pomelo
		of flesh coarse and rind loose
		just what the merriam co. says about
		the pomelo -- enjoying vague hints of strawberry
		and a sugary not too watery not too bitter apple-citric

		finish.


			Marek Lugowski
			13 April 1997
			Chicago, Illinois