Dinner For Two, Don'T Mind If I Do

Dinner for two, don’t mind if I do I’d like you to bring me a dinner for two - A serving for me and a serving for you. I’ll order up something that we two can share. Please bring it, then sit with me! Pull up a chair! Well thank you for asking, I’ll sit for a while While taking your order and sharing a smile We’ve so many meals that you’ll find are quite grand Our dinners for two are the best in the land We’ll start with a salad. I hope you won’t mind this salad will be of the specialty kind, the kind made of rainchokes and fiddlehead roots, and topped with wassava and sharkflower shoots. A salad, that’s nice, but if I might suggest The rainchokes this week I can’t say are the best We’re offering ladle leaves fresh from the stream With elk’nhorn sauce and some coblefish cream And after our salad, we’ll have the main dish: some Teek Bourguignon, or lardines if you wish See, it just doesn’t matter what food that we eat, as long as you join me! Please, pull up a seat! The Teek Bourguignon and the lardines are fine But don’t go so well with our Junejelly wine Our ruffledough stew and the wine make a pair Why thank you again, yes, I’ll pull up a chair Then after our meal, some dessert will be nice; I’ll order us up some sweet cragberry ice! We’ll top it all off with some coffee flown in especially from the small island of Dwin. Cragberry Ice is a great thing to try Though please let me show you our palm scrabble pie My favorite dish with some coffee from Dwin And it will not melt when we have it flown in I’ll thank you, dear waiter, for serving my needs; I’ll tip you with plenty of Dol-yapper seeds For, you see, I don’t eat alone, not anywhere! So bring it, then sit with me! Pull up a chair! Our food will be out in a zap-second-zip And there is no need for a generous tip This meal here with you is much more than a treat I’ll go get the salad and pull up a seat 5/2/17 Written for the “Please, Pull Up A Chair” Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Jerry T. Curtis The contest rules state: OK, Becca is the patron at The Cat In The Hat restaurant please read her poem entitled "PLEASE PULL UP A CHAIR" ....YOU are the waiter, She's speaking to YOU ...... what is your reply The bold stanzas are Rebecca Teagan’s poem, Please, Pull Up A Chair” (I have received permission from Rebecca to use her poem in my submission so that my “answer” stanzas will make more sense.)