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June 10, 2026  

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Doubts About Sprouts

I'm stuck on the ending and have been for a while. Any suggestions would be great:)

 

 

We’re having bean sprouts?
I have a few of doubts.

Do you cook them in a pot?
Do you eat them while they’re hot?
Do you throw them in a stew?
Does it help to cure the flu?
Do you chop them in a blender?
Does it make them extra tender?
Do you cook them in a pan?
Do they come from a can?
In the oven, do they bake?
Can you make a bean sprout cake?
Were the sprouting shoots of beans,
Picked before their means?

With all these doubts

I just want to shout,

“Let the bean sprouts grow!”


1- Alcuin of York on May 23 2007

You're fairly close on the rhythm, but let me make a few suggestions: What? We're having beanie sprouts? / I have some teeny doubts.

As for the ending, perhaps:
With all these doubts, you know / just let the poor things grow.

or

Why hurt the tender shoots? / Just let them keep their roots.

or

...so many doubts about / those teeny beanie sprouts.
Alcuin

2- Anstey on May 23 2007

I really like fred's first suggestion there.
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  • stephan
Jennifer Ragan

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on May 23 2007
from Camillus, New York

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