You'll probably notice that there's no mention of potatoes in the following poetry. But you know where potatoes and poetry have recently intertwined? The Satire Issue of READ! That's right, our Lit Scene Investigation featured parodies of the following poems using potatoes as a theme. Sure these poems are examples of greatness in literature. But where do you put the ketchup?

This Is Just to Say
by William Carlos Williams

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

Sonnet 18 Shall I Compare These to A Summer's Day
by William Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st.
     So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
     So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

TO STELLA

by Plato

THOU gazest on the stars, my star!

Ah! would that I might be

Myself those skies with myriad eyes,

That I might gaze on thee.