Best Let Them Eat Cake Poems

Never a girl 
so pretty as she
hair in pink curls
& a bunny called Dee

So happy together
always best friends
no matter the weather
they'd play til the end

A...

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Every Thursday for 2 years we’d meet at our cafe
For a slice of cake.
For 2 years I loved her in silence.
And counted down the days...

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The Rich/the Super Rich/the One Percenters.
Then there’s the rest of us,
The Disappearing/Shrinking Middle Class.
Our  “good paying “, American Dream financing  jobs gone,
Overseas.

The Chinese/Japanese/Indian/Korean/Malaysian,...

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I went into my kitchen to bake
An enormous rich chocolate cake
Mother gobbled the lot -
On the plate not a jot
No wonder she's got belly ache!

Mum...

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An Irish marmelade loaf
A Scottish parkin
Kentish nut & pear layer
Staffordshire oatcake
Brummie bacon cakes-
A teatime 
Snack !...

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C - Cream filled, jam oozing, sugary delight

  A - Almost orgasmic

  K - Keeps me happy thinking of 

  E -...

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She was a high born whore,
who lived luxuriously
Didn't have one ounce of compassion for the poor

She licked the seethed bones
with a viper's tongue
Guillotine parlor games...

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"50 Words for Poe: Witch"




She liked driving fast
The number plate in the dust
Read DOT.OZ.LimaLimaBrava 
Their destination was Wichita

Foot to the Floor 
Off Route 66 Silver...

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What ever happened to people, who really cared
about the poor and needy in my beloved country? 
The current Presidental The administration would like us
to go...

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Austrian princess taken from her home,
stripped of everything that she ever known.

Her mother arranged a political marriage,
sending her to France with a horse and carriage

Off...

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Bastille Day for Real
Jean Val Jean French "Mensch",
Rescued "Freres" From a Societal Trench,
Confounding the Monarchy With a "Monkey Wrench".

Marie Antoinette's "Let Them Eat Cake",
Only Inspired...

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I wrote these when the Soup was down and had no place to share them

History of the Day

Oct 15th
This is the anniversary of the first...

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Duncan Hines

Long before homemade peach clobber
Just after apple pie and before fruit bowl in melon rind
Restaurateur  Duncan Hines 
Birth in 1880
His dad a confederate...

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A radiantly coiffed bouffant was mine,
    fit perfectly and curved to the nines.
I stood taking in the awe of counterparts 
 ...

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Though I ponder forever, “What IS my mistake?”
I know Milton would say, “Just let them eat cake!”






















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