Lettuce Not Ptomain You! A Supplication to Establish a National Minimum Wage for the True but Unheralded Salad Bar Workers or The Different Green New Deal

"Colonel Cyclops"
by Big Pig at Hogmalion
silkscreen print
digitally framed
5" by 10"

Rocket (or Arugula), Batavia (or Summer Crisp),

Belgian Endive, Boston, Bibb...plus Dandelions (just a whisp),

Batavia and Butter Lettuce, Curly Endive, Mesclun, Leaf,

Frisée and Iceberg, Little Gems, Radicchio…let me be brief:
too long have salad fixin's slaved behind the scenes. But now we see 'em,
wilted, left bereft of dressing... (Tell me! How'd you like to be 'em...?)
Why can't lettuces today earn living wages – plus per diem! –

when, each leaf in her own way, now plays the Romaine Kaleosseum...?