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Premium Member Why I stopped going to Denny's

It's because of the bacon.

Yeah, it looks good on the menu, sitting there at the rim of the plate. Glistening. Archetypally ridged and ruffled. Positioned perfectly next to the eggs over easy, the pancakes, buxom and buttered, the sausage links, dwarfed but respectable.

Net, the Grand Slam holds its own. At $5.99 ($7.99 in select areas), it's still a bargain. The eggs are fine. The pancakes are as good as any. The sausage links are, you know, OK.

But the bacon... The bacon b-a-con. A swindle, a masquerade, a false promise, a double-cross, tissue-thin, gossamer, anorexic, nervous (nervosa in Spanish), frail, skittish, fragile, and afraid. Overcooked, ipso brittle, short crust, and crumbling. Try to cut a slice, and "snap-chink!" Chips fly everywhere. The knife (if you use one) smacks the porcelain. The fork is stunned, helpless; its tines useless as the spoon.

"Crack!" Oh, I'm sorry ma'am. I didn't mean to do that. Do you want me to brush it off your plate? Hey, a little piece went in your salad, a bacon bit. Do you like bacon bits? I think they're good. And there're not usually made of real bacon."

What are you gonna do with your eggs now? The Grand Slam doesn't come with toast. Everybody's looking at you, waiting to see your next move. "Yeah, I like to mix eggs with my pancakes. You don't do that sometimes? Really? It's good. You want a bite? No? OK..."

It's not the cook's fault. What's he supposed to do? He can barely see the damn things on the grill. Can't blame the waitress or the shift manager. The pigs are probably regular size. You can't expect the stock holders to take up pitchforks. What do you want for $5.99 ($7.99 in select areas)?

That's why I stopped going to Denny's.

Note: The person who lived next store to me growing up invented bacon bits for McCormick. True story.


I Dont Wanna Be Passive

awaiting interpersonal subsequent situation 
     aye tend to get ants
see when in the midst awaiting 
     said sub routine involving 

     outcome of circumstance
the parameter, perimeter, potentiometer, 
     et cetera extents 
sifts out the destructive sycophants 

     versus real boot not nacho 
     munching macho gents
thus ipso facto fur cher 
     pro bono, and hence
gaining kudos for fas innocence

je nais sais quois joie de vivre personal aim
finds this lapsed passive pen sieve blame
less body electric alternating 
     between defendant versus claim

"FAKE" aunt Emma, who wrote to said 
     real or fictitious dame
purportedly gave solicited feedback exclaim
ming absolute zero tolerance 
     for acquiescent docile frame
within the real versus make believe 
     Milton Bradley board game

of LIFE as well my late mum (Chris Anne) 
whose maternal sermons 
     included a ban
against blindly enlisting 

     into any sect chew will clan
purporting pretending posturing 
     as Dudley Do-right dan
sing with the stars amidst a Euclidean

Geometry auditorium, 
     where the glitzy dazzling audience 
     flush with many a fan
gnat tics toward a particular couple

said open eyed spectators 
     focused glazed eyes and grand
huzzahs on a man or woman, 
     who took charge hand
dilly directing his/her partner 
     acrobatic aeronautics inland

pro active with guiding he or she 
     toe till lee tubular counterpart re
speck ting decorum, yet pre
zen ting a choreographed production nee

an utterly out of this world with lee
ping skyward ward jumps key
pin equipoise holy jee 
purrs, which scenario

analogous to taking bold
measures tubby 
     forthrightly assertive fold
ding arms crosswise 
     across chest, taking hold
din stance without conveying 
   a haughtiness mold.

Farage's new Raj


It's prime time for the new Raj

Facts & acts must just sabotage

All baloney with no camouflage

Racist fascist pacts back in charge


De facto crypto crony arbitrage

With an aristo phony entourage

Ipso facto know who's the sarge 

Nige does show pony dressage


Truth and proof will just massage

Aloof uncouth ranter going large

Just pub banter a bit of badinage


Trump leader of hit populist collage

All aboard greedier tech T-Rex barge

Seedier far right sh*t media montage


Vent at the establishment's espionage

Decent and democratic only a mirage

Bet just cover for yet another barrage

To other bigots & despots pay homage


An abhorrent torrent he does sparge

Hilarious no it is nefarious persiflage

Nutter's not butter but cheap marge

Spread thin in the gutter Nige Farage
Form: Monorhyme

Laryngeal Spasm

(alternately titled: excuse me while aye...
touch the sky, hen derrick lee 
and pull lightly gag.)

September third tooth house sand
     and eighteen didst find me
to awaken with a start
     during the wee
(Willy Paine Weber) re
duck tee yo absurdum painful hour
     of predawn this morning
     with an experience

     nada so grew vee -
feeling (the unstoppable) tree
men diss urge (lance 
     sing arm) strong
     sensation to regurgitate,
     which tum me,
(and ma tummy) 
     prima facie (pre

mud Donna Brownian 
     bow will Movement)    
     processing) ranks as
     the moost unpleasant – 
basic bodily condition,
(hence disqualifying this former
     anorexic tib bee ya
bulimic), which nauseous repulsion

     to stomach tomb muss elf
     (yea - pertaining to
yours truly: Ma
     Thee You Scott) a tinny
     brass, heartless, and
     dis straw hit cow
     word lee lion
     dew wing ever re:

thing in my "FAKE" NON GMO
     gluten, lactose (i.e.
dairy substitute), and
     monosodiumglutimate free,
wand door full
     wizard ding once fore mid
     able superman, (and now fee
bull powerless reign jars

     ipso fact-so) dee
did immediately whee
kin n ding excess see
ville lee more, dee
pull lore rib hill
     den das bloviation
     spattering, Obi
Wan Kenobi, Casanova,

     (Don Quixote) key
ping figurative lid, prithee
a boot mine gag reflex
     within very limited nee
zero printed edition on reek
     quest not to
     publish very disagree
hubble reader's un
     digest tib bill

     (authored by this atheistic
     secular humanist gib
     brush gabbling, (sans
     reincarnated doubting Thomas pre

lapse Aryan) Unitarian scree
ming cowabunga herbivorous
     droning baby bee
nix nox zippity doo dada
lix lox nicks nox hip pea.

The Coffee Making Ceremony

An unreflective Bodhisattva
nods to the unwashed dishes.
Once again I seek my morning 
liberation by ways of a dark libation

Next a phlegmy mantra
gummed through spongy lips.
“I sleep, I wake. I sleep, I wake”

The mug is perfunctorily rinsed,
the stains of past desires
ring the rim like hungry ghosts.

I am aware of not being aware.
Ipso facto: I am aware,
but only in the cracks
between random thoughts.

Sweetness comes in pink packets.
The sacraments are torn open
two at a time with habitual practice.
A Zen-like work,
by rote and thought-free.
 
The percolator bubbles a last breath.
Like the Tathagata, I am truly gone.
An arm pours black oozing bliss
Into my mug.

A beatific smile
escapes from grungy features.


Premium Member Rhymification's Ramifications

If rectify means to right a wrong
   Shouldn't singify mean to sing a song
Then again, there's the word, compose
   Which would thereby be composify

Back to good old singify, which looks like
   I can't spell signify...though I sincerely think
That singification should never replace song
   Just as wrongification must never replace wrong...

For if so, ipso facto, a simple composition
   Would turn into a composifiication --
Which would be as complexify is to complex
   And complexification is to complexion --

You thought 'twas on me to write 'complexity'
   ~ 'Twould've nullified my rhymificationity...  


                 January 27, 2019
         Entry in "Failed Sonnet" Contest
      Sponsors:  Mo Howard and Larry Fine

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