Hate-filled Mouthful

mo: here's what i hate today, a list by Michele O. Medlin
- i hate this one type of lettuce that tastes like perfume

sare: yes!

mo: its like white and tree like?
or at least it comes in that group of lettuces for some reason?

sare: tastes like you're eating twist ties?

mo: you got your perfectly good lettuces and then BAM! you get this fricking hate-filled mouthful of PLANT!
and no one can explain to you why!

sare: i know right?
i hate that

mo: you know what it is?

sare: i call it escarole
i might be wrong

mo: PREJUDICE!

sare: KILL!

mo: that's what i call it

sare: yes!
it tastes like prejudice

mo: because one person has DECLARED that we should like it

sare: bad and wrong and out of place in the salad of america

mo: well, screw YOU!
i will NOT sit at the back of the bus

sare: it's lettuce though
so
i mean, it's not like we can equate any of our experiences with the civil rights movement of the 50s and 60s

mo: why not?

sare: because it's a salad?

mo: but, i don't have any other struggles

sare: really?
well, ok.

mo: what do i have?

sare: escarole
the lettuce of prejudice