Poverty Slop

Poverty Slop is like eating the Earth.
It's a Shepherd's Pie with the meat as girth.

There's a slop of corn running down and thin.
On the top potatoes, just to seal it in.

Only Poverty Slop has a taste for each,
that you'll move in close, so your tongue will reach.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015

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