Spicy chicken wings for dinner
I think seriously you'll want to reconsider
~ proposing bitesize toasted tomato sandwiches
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: 2nd place 2025
snowflake meatball sandwich
it has been a long time
in honor of you, i add the monterey jack
it is such a shame that you died alone with all phones completely off
the tears fall quietly as i prepare bacon cheeseburger chili
while looking at the blue lake accepting kisses from the sun,
i think about the dried blood on the well worn rope
i become lost as i butter the potato rolls while wondering what i missed along with others
snowflake meatball sandwich
so many lifetimes have passed
as a tribute to you, i pour the blue cream soda in the frosted glass that says 'Live Freely'
it is such a shame that you died alone with all communication completely gutted
the tears fall with more volume as I take put some of the taco salad in a large paper bowl
while looking at the blue lake react pain of the expressive teardrop rain,
i think about the old, well worn dining room chair with 'Brooks' carved in the center of the seat
i become frozen in the state of missing completely oblivious to everything turning subzero cold
Today I think of your
Contributions closing the theater’s door
Putting together toasted bread
Ready for a child to be fed
Youngster wearing grape jelly
Face down to the belly
Laughing saying ‘this is great’
Not showing any hate
But Peanut Butter, it is you
Who makes the mid-day matinee ever so cool
Thank you for coming out of the nutty shell
I would like to tell
About the sandwich where you are
The star
Performing with a backup fruity band
Bringing in all your fans
Grabbing using two strong hands
Not really needing added ham
Applause when going into the mouth
Travelling stomach south
Toddler enjoying the mess
Never will they confess
Instead, go off to sleep
Napping counting Bo and Peep
Lovely sheep
Who once were said
Proclaimed Holy bread
God’s true lamb
Sacrificed when ended up caught in a jam
How much do we love
Our meal fitting like a glove
Getting it all over ourselves
Nutritious wealth
Giving us good health
Being simple as a chair
Lunchtime afternoon’s delightful affair
Always welcome on the stage
No matter what the audiences age
Throw it on a sandwich and I will eat it, he said.
Mayo, ketchup, onions, lettuce, cheddar on rye bread.
I slapped on beef, turkey, steak and honey ham too.
Perfect he said, it’s a real grand slam, and I owe you.
I am the Bagel...you are the whole of my life
I am the pickle... you are the sweet to my sour
I am the butter... you spread happiness all over me
I am the cheese... your softness smothers me
I am the meat ... you are tender
I am the sandwich... you are the wrapper
that keeps me warm, covers me, keeps me safe.
peanut butter and mayo
don’t forget lettuce
it is my favorite sandwich
not real Mayo
Sweet Miracle Whip
do you want
one?
Tripe, sweetbreads, entrails, offal,
some people spell them awful.
Scottish chefs can do them right
Haggis, a meal, out of sight.
Making a proper meatball sandwich
is virtual what-not-who and which
needing perhaps some extra spice
supply it with a bit of Scotch hype.
The last, best organ 'grinder' that I got
was on Panera Bread’s French baguette, hot.
Barrel-shaped bread held tight as treasure
the tin cup for the drink of my pleasure.
Helga was from a small town – Sandwich Illinois
It used to have seven thousand people
It was down to five thousand now
She thought she knew most of them
She had been the sandwich queen in 2010
The fifty-seventh sandwich queen
You have to come to the sandwich fair, her friends said
She could not explain this to others,
Because they had not grown up in Sandwich
Attending the Sandwich Fair was important to her family
Especially her mother and grandmother
Both former sandwich queens
Two holidays extraordinary
bookend a day - simple, ordinary
How is that unfortunate day viewed
sandwiched between the other two
Well, strange as it may seem
and believe me, this is no dream
That simple day, upon further reflection
has the advantage of science-based refraction
Picture each holiday as a separate painting
each one glorious, majestic, self-sustaining
Then give a two-sided mirror to our 'Day Ordinaire'
Voila! ~ Now, which of the three days is 'Extraordinaire'
Ron Padgett 'SANDWICH MAN'
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Sandwich
We are meat
We are cheese
We are trapped inbetween
Undesirable carbs
Of dementia and teen
We want to be tasty
Be nutritionally good
But I'd revise this recipe
If I thought that we could
A drizzle more patience
Add some grace, just a dash
Lavishly labour with love
Quite a splash
When it's all finished
And the recipe's done
We'll be pausing desserts
For some restoration
Jinjagoliath
1st April 2023
Falling in love
is really quite simple–
The girl ahead of me
in line today
ordered a small pitcher
of beer and one single
bag of fritos.
Peanut butter and jelly is my go-to sandwich every day.
You can have your turkey, beef, and salami, all your very way.
I care not for pickles, relish, ranch, mustard, or mayo.
Please hang on to your onions, lettuce, and bit of tomato.
Peanut butter and jelly is the sandwich of my dream.
I do not care about pork – barbequed or steamed.
Just make sure the jelly is grape, and not strawberry.
You can save the meats and cheeses for my cousin Harry.
Broken bottles glitter on the swollen concrete before
the door.
His smiling face in fractals of the glass window.
His counter, sun-wrecked and water stained hold his
familiar hands.
The floor is caked in ochre footsteps of those who
came out of the rain before me.
Vaulted ceilings of ashen metal blow artificial air
upon my midsummer neck
The gray veins of each aisle beckon me home
Smells of fresh baked bread permeate the thick, wet
air and come to rest, steadfast, in my nose
Mohammed’s communal voice starts to sing
and static begins to crackle
The store itself drenched in scents of brief understanding
The inner stench hangs in the air
permeating the entire room;
Straight funk is just too much to bear;
Residue swept up with a broom,
can’t hide decrepit with perfume;
What’s real and fantasy can’t switch;
Throw trash out or you may consume
a rotten idiot sandwich.
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