Caponata (Draft 1)
If I could be someone
if I could have some meaning
like eggplant in the sauce, then
I’d need to be coated well
before I can be fried in your love
I could be capable in your capers
to be frisky and crisp if
I had the onions and
you the olive oil
We are cooking
like an antipasto
And doesn’t every great dinner
become dessert
You are too sweet
to need any sugar
except me
— Douglas Gilbert
