Potato Pride

Fargo, North Dakota, the potato industry...
Farm Frites feels recession, less potatoes sell,
layoffs and long lines, potatoes abide
warehouse niche,
and this as cold winds blow deep drifts
of frosty flocculent flake,
Red River potatoes un-skinned
unprocessed,
conveyor belts stilled due to decline of
potato crave...
Yet Frites, inspired by American way
by profit and by desire to succeed,
(with utmost respect for tuberous
  perennial nightshade),
eyes the world,
examines basic business options
opts that never-say-die resolve
(like Yukon Gold)
to wit, realizes foreign populations,
(the appetite for consumption)
cogitates possibilities
far beyond its humble mid-west genesis.
Farm Frites is building a Fries company in China.
Long live the potato.


24 Lines
Writer's Cramp
9-19-14