My favourite colour has always been green
the colour of the landscape, and of life.
I must say, it's a colour better seen
than tasted: I am quite unlike my wife
who piles the salad high upon her plate.
For me, the only good leaves are on trees
and as for lettuce, rocket, which I hate,
I try hard to avoid such things as these.
Yes, people say it's full of vitamins
but I'm not dying for the lack of those.
My salad's always chucked in litter bins
or else flushed down the toilet – there it goes!
I could say more on my dislike of salad
but this is just a sonnet – not a ballad.