Short Scrapple Poems

Pork, cornmeal, chicken broth, thyme
Salt, pepper, flour
Bake, freeze, cool, slice to slow cook  
Flour, season, fry
Toast, tea, and fried eggs
marmalade
Ah!...

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I Do not want a window seat .
I do not want to freeze my feet..
I do not want a waiter cat .
I do not like his pin striped hat..
I do not want him to touch my food.
And how he speaks is down right Rude..

So won't you take my order Jerry.
I know the menu, and I'm in quite the hurry..
Scrapple , egg and cheese on toast, 
that is the meal I love the most..
The tall cat can have his green eggs and ham.
    He's not from Philly but Sam I Am.....

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Where Should I

Where should I start and begin
Pine trees are tall as well as thin
In the breeze will swing and sway
While children underneath often play.

So today what should we try to do?
Ask God to make dreams come true
Or something special like smiling dog
Maybe frog leaping high over a log.

Fresh flowers were cut and presented
To my pretty wife who has consented
Instead of a pie made out of apple
We had fried eggs mixed with scrapple.

James Thomas Horn
Retired Soldier...

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