Best Acquired Taste Poems

You are what you eat; it is true,
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I sit on the fence
Would like to be eccentric
But don’t quite pull it off
I still cater to way too many people
Yet I’ll never become their...

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In the debate between accessible and difficult poems
Poets' poems and poems for people
Only the single poem and private reader matter

Both kinds and anything between can...

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"The In-Between"

I ripped the pages of 
that tired old story 
from the heart, a body of work

buried the misdiagnosed slanders
then wiped their mouths
with the back...

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The Call

For as long as I can remember, I have been phoning my mom. Even before leaving home when I was a teenager. Whenever I...

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A few weeks ago I had a dream wherein my Chinese wife dyed her black hair blonde; then I woke up and told her I...

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Cycling through time;
this wrack of flesh fleets on.
Spinning indifferently on a compressed 
ball of mud.
Pulsing and thumping against 
the deafening destiny of becoming
a part of...

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The tray comes out
I choose my first 
I lift the shell to my mouth
Splash! A foamy spray of brine smashes against the rocks, sending arcs...

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This is my story about Menudo, and not the boy band Menudo
Mexican Menudo soup, known as the breakfast of champions
It’s what borracho’s, and Ricky Martin...

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rough with beauty 
    an acquired taste
            sexy with squiggles

But it’s...

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Tonight we’ll sit around the table
While we’re reminiscing
Both about the Israelites
And those whom we are missing.

Every Seder takes me back
To those when I was young.
I...

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Mothers are like spices
Some people can’t stand them!
For others they’re an acquired taste
While for most... one’s never enough....

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A Vegetable Story

Broccoli, Spinach, yummy fresh Garden Peas,
Cabbages, Winter Greens, Cauliflower Trees.
Runner Beans and broad, Mange Tout so Francais,
Curly Kale, Crunchy Sprouts on a cold...

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He said he loved of the Mickey,
as he pointed at my friend's faded T-shirt
The native Cantonese man purred,
and said it was his favorite exotic cuisine
Belly,...

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Wine is my Valentine

Intoxicated by its love 
Diversity of my taste
such a warm embrace

You’re timeless, legal and `appeasable

 Kiss my lips, tease my ****
chill or...

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