eggplant ahoy

about twenty years ago my pal mike
walked me through the creation
of eggplant parmigiana

i only made it that once
but today in the produce section of fry’s
the most gorgeous eggplant called my name

so I acquired it and took it home
but as i recall parmigiana is a messy make
so now I’m looking at videos

martha stewart seems to treat eggplant
as if it were a fat purple zucchini
slicing off the ends and then subdividing

I might do that and then throw it in a colander
with salt as she advised
to quell its possible bitterness

but i don’t want to hack it to pieces
its lovely deep purple is glossier
than the paint job on a corvette

and it did call my name
so maybe we’ll become more than friends
said the disgusting sicko