Best Caloric Poems

The cheesecake in the bakery I want to devour,
dag-gone my crumbling willpower!
It's cherry topping so high,
makes me want to cry.
I walk on past the candy aisle,
and gaze at the cereal shelves awhile.
Euell Gibbon's "sticks and pebbles"
Grape Nuts brand-
that kind of breakfast I cannot stand.

Give me...

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Though what we know
and that which we feel
goes into what we write

I believe
poets are more inclined toward

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the alchemy of lyric-formation

what is just around the corner
horrifically vague

standing on the lip-edge

toes dangling over

peering bravely into a
primal abyss 

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each new declaration a journey

backward, compressing coldly
into dank catacombs of...

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Caloric foods when eaten to excess
affect the heart and rear.
And trying to make the latter disappear
will prove to be a stubborn test
though not the heart that failed last year.
...

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