wild onions.....

ok, so on the way to work this morning i listened to an npr piece about how the who tried but failed to eradicate polio in the 70's, the 80's and the 90's.....and how the disease is still with us some 50 years after the salk vaccine.......i can appreciate the problem with eradicating anything as vigorous as a virus.....i have waged a failing war against wild onions for 23 years......and the battle has only just begun.......this afternoon i devoted a full 20 minutes to pulling wild onions.......i have a book entitled the 20 minute gardener...which promises that i can acheive a stellar effect with only 20 minutes a day.......gentle readers.....while i know that those with more than 20 minutes to spare have much nicer plantings and far fewer weeds, i am like the overweight couch potato who really wants to believe that the no-exercise diet pills work miracles.......and thus...20 minutes of pulling wild onions....didn't i pull this same clump last year...and the year before?.....didn't i get all of the roots...and the dirt around the roots.....have they spontaneously regenerated from some sort of mud-mediated memory....like the feeling that an amputee can have in a missing limb.......so very annoying that 2 decades of pulling the same weeds has yielded...well....no return whatsoever.......had i known.....as a near-newlywed that nothing i pulled from this very earth would be a permanent solution.....gosh...i could have spent the time learning to speak farsi.....well...maybe not....it is only my blood kin trying to convince my offspring that farsi is worth learning.........but back to onions.......so why do i not eat them......hmmmm....because they are not as tasty as hothouse green onions.....more potent and less etherial.......you know what i mean........probably not.....the esoteric characteristics of onions is a subset of humankind......and i have met few folks who share this devotion to the allia family of fine vegetation.............makes me hungry for onions just thinking about onions...no...that is the smell underwashed onion-hands......sublime....eh?