Levi Poems

Here's sophomre Levi Calveri's poem, after eating a shitake mushroom and facing his mushroom fear:

Mushrooms,
I ignored you every day of my life,
passing you by,
not knowing the immense loss
growing every time I rejected you.

But I’m trying to change.
I know I was wrong.
I never noticed your smooth brown color.
Texture so soft--submitting yourself
to my teeth and taste buds.

It’s hard to be ignored
and suddenly loved.
I was a coward.

Enjoying you now:
a way for me to say sorry.

Signed,

Your Secret Admirer