Your kale would like to kill you, but it can't.
Its hands are tied, because it is a plant.
It does its best to harm you,
but its goal need not alarm you.
It has its motives, but its means are scant.
Your broccoli is nurturing a grudge.
That's why it has an aftertaste of sludge.
Its spite is strong, but stealthy;
still, the end results are healthy,
so its ill intent is rather hard to judge.
Your Brussels sprouts would choke you if they could.
They don't like being eaten – and who would?
But no matter how extensive
their attempts to be offensive,
the worse they taste, the more they do you good.
