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This novelette is an allegory about youthful collard greens that "sag" to the chagrin of their elders and distributors, both of whom set out to find a solution to this appalling tendency.
Each group, elders and distributors, in their own way contribute to the amelioration of this sagging syndrome, which the young greens had acquired via lateral gene transfer from their human consumers.
The figures of speech are given a work-out in this short and potent story, Metonymy, hyperbole, simile, personification and metaphors are all present.
Along the way, the reader encounters popular music, gospel music, the Bible, golf; in addition to botany, epigenetics, science fiction, history, and racism.
In the end, however, it is love, which supplies the seeded solution to this sagging scenario, and which offers hope for future collard greens, their distributors, and colored people.
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