Susan and the six pound Zucchini

it's a big zucchini for such a little sprite
she'll bring it home to her kitchen and stare at all 6 pounds of it
and ponder zucchini recipes, wandering then to look at her supplies
of bread crumbs and brown sugar, olive oil and walnuts to
decide sweet or salty, and think over her neighbors, her friends
and relatives, her co-workers and her long lost lover who
used to eat zucchini bread over coffee every fall,
with walnuts
and
then she'll decide on stuffed zucchini with bread crumbs and walnuts,
a sprinkle of brown sugar and will set about to her task,
the six pound zucchini succumbing to her slicing and
dicing, the butter, the oil, the saute pan
transforming what could have
been viewed as ugly and unappetizing
into a dish fit for a king,
or a queen, as one would have
it.