would you really think it a grotesque crime
if served a plate of deep-fried slime
and too, be thought to be unusually cruel
to be offered a glass of seltzered gruel
famished you go to the fridge and grab
a rusted rack of horseshoe crabs
you have some leftover meat seldom seen
don't serve it up as goulash ice cream
you see, it matters the names we ingest
not many desire a soup of bird's nest
yet some sticks stuck to your avian ribs
sounds more appetizing than some ol' goats kids
so if your aperitive desires a full satiation
don't call a burger a "lean, finely-textured vegetation"
© Goode Guy 2012-04-13
how many of you just begin to salivate when i say the words "pink slime"?
Categories:
aperitive, food,
Form: Couplet