The Salsify Sonnet

For all its beauty, it is invasive.
Advice says to pull it up from the roots 
before it takes over everything, 
but then I found at the bottom a note:
The roots can be eaten. This I must try.

They look like the long fingers of a ghoul 
at Halloween--gnarly and pugnacious.
I rinsed them to peel them and fry them up.

I want this to serve as notice, my friends, 
and not be eager to eradicate 
without finding merit in what remains.

Some, I know, have banished me from their lives 
because of my errors, lapses, and flaws.
But I have worth in redeeming in my root.