Beauregard Sweet Potato and his sidekick Lemon Basil went out to the garden to spread their seed about. Beau put the moves on a glacier tomato who told him to buzz off and then gave him a clout.
Basil went after a small red bush dry bean
and suggested they have a roll in the dirt,
but she shunned him for a devil's tongue looseleaf lettuce
who, it turned out, was a much more skillful flirt.
Beau then approached a goldenseal
but she was too upper crust.
Basil propositioned a scarlet runner bean
but she left him in the dust.
Beau hit on a cherry tomato but she
told him she preferred to remain chaste.
Basil struck out with a chickpea who said
long red peppers were more to her taste.
Basil was ready to pack it in but
Beau told him not to fret.
He said, "Don't give up, my friend!
There is hope for us yet!
"Somewhere there must be horehound
or maybe some fast lady cow-peas.
We'll have better luck with them.
They're always eager to please!"
Beau and Basil decided
they had ho reason to hang around,
and so they left their garden
and went in search of more fertile ground. -- Jeff Barnes
