To Be Hungry Is To Be Great

--William Carlos Williams

The small, yellow grass-onion,

spring’s first green, precursor

to Manhattan’s pavements, when

plucked as it comes, in bunches,

washed, split and fried in

a pan, though inclined to be

a little slimy, if well cooked

and served hot on rye bread

is to beer a perfect appetizer——

and the best part

of it is they grow everywhere.