Best Cornstarch Poems

When you have a desire
for something,
You have an intense craving 
that just won’t quit.
For some people 
it’s called a Nicotine Fit.
Desperate people will check 
the ashtrays
Before they ask…
Can I get a cigarette?
They crave and enjoy the pleasure,
that first satisfying drag.
Moving their arm in that wonderful...

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The child sat on the sofa,
her body laiden with bruises and covered in lice. 
She was only the age of one,
         maybe two.
     How could this be true?
I stared at my friend and she at me.
Tears flooded my eyes, how could this be?
My friend babysat...

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Sara tiptoes across
The kitchen floor
To get some heat
She opens the oven door

Sheets in the window
Sara calls them curtains
Mind weary, Soul hurtin'
Sara

Sara lives by the train tracks
At Sixteenth and O
Her Mama calls it a shack
But to Sara it’s quite comfortable

Flour and water
Two minute gravy
Don't rattle those...

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speak it as it was to be
something for a world of
people to love and admire.
delicious and special.
she wanted something that was flavored naturally.
we determined that a sweet fruity flavor would
be best. because she was cooking chicken
and felt it was best to have as much chicken...

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she looked into the cupboard
and handed me this
" look Bouis, I have sumthang for you,
it was your great, great, great, Grand cousins recipe for
his magic porkchops."Ya'll be like poo dinna: futcum fair!"
she said she was speaking in her native tongue. I took the 
recipe and...

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2 yucca roots peeled and diced
3 quarts of boiling salted water
add roots, when softened
remove from water
and smash them while they are hot
allow to cool

measure two cups
add, 3 egg yolks
2 teaspoons of white pepper
 2tablespoons of crushed garlic
3 chopped green onions
1/4 cup of heavy cream
mix together...

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4 CUPS OF PORK-BUTT SLICED
1/3 CUP OF CORNSTARCH AND 1/3 CUP OF WATER(MIXED)
1 CUP OF LIME JUICE
1/4 CUP OF CHILI PEPPERS(HOT)
1 CUP OF ONIONS (CUT INTO WEDGED PIECES AND BLANCED)
2 TABLESPOONS OF SOY SAUCE
1/4 HONEY
1/4 BROWN SUGAR
1/2 CUP BANANA RUM
5 PLANTAINS BROILED(UNTIL CARAMELIZED)
1/3 CUP OF...

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Some days I drift back to smoother times
when we used to scurry
through the streets with a clearer mind
we had no worries

See our elders showed us a better way
it was no killing, we used to box
so we could laugh and talk about the yesterday
while pitching rocks

On...

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referred to as
a creation
where lovers
enjoy what they eat
something greater and grandeur
than something ordinary
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6 pork chops
1 tablespoon of cumin
1 tablespoon of garlic powder
2 tablespoons of cayenne
1 tablespoon of onion powder
1 tablespoon of celery salt
4 tablespoons of cornstarch
1 tablespoon of ground ginger
1/4 cup of flour
7 tablespoons of...

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Lyricvixen's Dark Cherry Blueberry Chocolate Ice Cream (Low-Calcium)(not-vegan) )

11.1 oz - (OR - 330ml or four 1/3 cups) Embe Coconut Milk -
              ( whole container)  (got at Walmart)

* ten - Pitted*...

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5-6 pounds of meaty oxtails
1 cup of olive oil
1 cup of flour
3 tsp. Of dried thyme
5 tablespoons of cilantro
1 cup of celery
1 cup of chopped onion
1 cup of red bell pepper
3 chopped chipotle peppers
1 bottle of beer
2 cups of ginger ale
1/4 cup of lemon juice

Combine...

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I spread my toes wide in the sand,
tanned feet in stark contrast,
the white sand squeeked like cornstarch,
saw the shadows that we cast.

She sat forward, hunched, hands clasped,
her shoulders round and frail,
her clear blue eyes were milky now,
her face seemed pinched and pale.

Just last month she...

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MIGHT THIS PLEASE SIR?
4 CUPS OF STRAWBERRIES
1 CUP OF THINLY SLICED RHUBARB
2 CUPS OF STRAWBERRY CHAMPAGNE
1 & 1/2 CUP OF WATERMELON CHAMPAGNE
3 CUPS OF SUGAR
1/4 CUP OF LEMON JUICE = 2 TABLESPOONS OF CORNSTARCH
5 TABLESPOONS OF CHOPPED MINT

MAKE A SYRUP WITH SUGAR ADD CHAMPAGNE (BOTH)
ALLOW...

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2.5 cups of chickpeas
2 egg yolks
3 t of lime juice
4 tablespoons of garlic
1/2 onion
1/2 flaked fish
1/2 t of dried thyme
4 T shredded coconut
1 teaspoon of smoked paprika
4 T toasted sesame seeds
2 Tablespoons of flour
2 T cornstarch
deep fat fry in
a mixture of
olive oil and avocado oil.
2...

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2 POUNDS(OR 1 CUP AND 1/2 CUP) OF ITALIAN SAUSAGE MEAT BROWNED AND DRAINED.......


4 CUPS OF JASMINE RICE ) BROWNED(
2 TABLESPOONS OF GARLIC POWDER
1 TABLESPOON OF CAYENNE PEPPER
1/2 CUP OF DICED SAUTEED GREEN PEPPERS
1/2 CUP ONIONS DICED AND SAUTEED
1 TEASPOONS OF THYME DRIED
1/2 TEASPOON OF...

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