Best Sweetbread Poems

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Lady Liberty

And the Lady cries:
"Bring me your lame, maime,
Your poor, your Refugees."

Came by the Mayflower
And others like her,
The first Settlers came
from near and far;
Men, women,...

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A PBS SPECIAL: IF AS SUNG BY BREAD

Mm mm, if I had a sweet tooth,
I think I would be sugar proof.

A cake would be nice
to...

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PLEASE PASS THE SWEETBREAD

With sorrow tomorrow I will say fare thee well
As I be headed for the intestines of hell
A demon misdirected to be duly...

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no recollection
of ebullient memories
life of complex work
too many siblings to please
time for ice-cream if afford

a time of prayer
afterwards back to play cloths
with sweetbread and friends
a...

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A Hundred Equine

Hot salty drops trickled into my mouth.
The sun had changed my brown flesh to bright red.
Reflected brilliance passed through squinting eyes.
Faint, I rested...

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Some times
I wonder why
the white bread
hates the brown toast
when the sandwich maker shows
what the
bread maker knows
that the dark bread
and the white bread
are both
created from dough
even...

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You must go to the fun house! It is the carnival’s best thing! My children said.
I pictured whimsical trees, pink birdies and lollipops eating sweetbread.
I...

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