A Cowpea for Me, The lightest of light verse related to luck/rabbits Options

[jgdittier]

This was written as an addition to "White Rabbits" and justifies no effort at improvement.

Oh blackeyed pea, you're cattle fodder...
A feed for wife, a feed for daughter...
The "cowpea bean", that lowly lentil,
is food for folks, though accidental.

Egyptians thought the crop's a blessing,
though ev'ry trait, as food, depressing.
So Pharoah thought, the eating's oddly,
humility must make it godly.
To gobble down this pea-like porridge
assures removal from dead storage.
How e'er it's eaten, it's so yucky
those who do so should be lucky.

The Vickburg folk lived six weaks weekly
with Union troops at gates, obliquely.
And so I'll eat my cowpeas yearly
on New Year's Day, one bite, austerely.

http://plantanswers.tamu.edu/vegetables/blackeye.html

[Guest_poeticpiers_*]

We have a similar custom the first Sunday of lent we eat carlings which I assume are similar to blackeyed peas.We have legends regarding them being the only food available to the population at some time in the Past.Like all legends hard to pin down You poem though light hearted bears the stamp of authority Ron