LouLou versus Silvia

LouLou

And so it ends, 

in peace,

the career 

of the armored vegetable 

called "artichoke," 

and presently 

scale by scale 

we undress

this delight 

we munch 

the peaceful paste 

of its green heart.

Ode to an Artichoke. 

Pablo Neruda

 

Silvia