My Father's Instructions: Cooking Filet Mignon
...Have it
At room
Temperature
Before cooking.
No marinade.
Just coarse salt
And pepper.
Hot heavy pan
Medium to high heat.
Flip when seared.
Dark brown.
Lower heat.
Lotsa butter,
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Categories:
tenderloin, food,
Form: Free verse
Food Missed
...The poetry of the COVID era (read to the end)
Thai pineapple rice. Wonton and Yaki Soba
Tortufo ice cream. Scallopini veal, halva and also soda
Tamago, octopus and yellowtail. Ribs, pasta fagiol...
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Categories:
tenderloin, america, food,
Form: Rhyme
The Tenderloin
...I’ve lived up
till now
with my thumb
in life’s eye
In reckless
abandon
I shucked
and I jived
No virgin
was safe
no harlot
denied
The wages
of sin
my fortune
— allied
(Dreamsleep:...
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Categories:
tenderloin, sin,
Form: Rhyme
Robert Lloyd Sherriff - Australian Poet - Flowers in their hair
...Robert Lloyd Sherriff - Australian Poet, Author, Actor, and Model: American Historian.
Flowers in their hair
In the vibrant city of San Francisco, where beauty and complexity intertwine, a tale...
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Categories:
tenderloin, age, beauty, bible, body,
Form: Bio
Life's Untorn Page
...I moved to San Francisco from across the bay in early 1977. At 19 years old, dad got me a two-bedroom house in the San Francisco suburb known as the Ocean District. It was the type of home that adjoi...
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Categories:
tenderloin, america, analogy, bereavement, children,
Form: Other
Kriegspiel
...Knight to Queen’s Bishop three.
Knight to King’s Bishop six.
A long, thoughtful pause
Then a bloody melee
With all the usual pawns
Being slaughtered en passant.
The players consent to chop woo...
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Categories:
tenderloin, allegory, war,
Form: Blank verse
I Heard the Universal Sound of Aum Pronounced Ohm
...I heard the universal sound of aum (pronounced ohm)...
while being quarantined inside our own invisible bubble
Transcendent meditations
while athwart oblate spheroid
allow, enable, and provide
...
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Categories:
tenderloin, allah, appreciation, birth, devotion,
Form: Free verse
A Visit To Contradiction Cafe
...Their reserved table was already in use
and their solid chair backs were so loose
This refined gentleman diner felt quite rough
as his tenderloin steak was extremely tough
His wife’s ...
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Categories:
tenderloin, food, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Tenderized
...As the tenderizing tenderloin rub his meat.
The antibiotics circulated through his veins
ran down beneath his feet. The taste is off
but memorizing my mouth, as I swallow his
flavors I began t...
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Categories:
tenderloin, food, sensual,
Form: Free verse
I Did Not Play the Game Right
...What is your philosophy on Dali?
I love him. Let’s have a tenderloin.
Actually, I wanted to have a brainy discussion of some sort.
I wanted to use some elongated, snobbish words on you first.
I...
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Categories:
tenderloin, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse
The Chopsquirrley Restaurant
...Welcome she said with a chopsquirrely grin.
I was entranced, and enthralled, and I quickly ran in.
We have puddings, cakes, omelets, hamburgers too.
What can we bring little ‘ole you?
Immediate...
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Categories:
tenderloin, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Repast For June 13th 2020
...Repast for June 13th, 2020...
(and countless provender
scores of years gone by)...
to partake larding refrigerator cupboards
think respectable food vendor.
Courtesy Montgomery County
(Pennsyl...
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Categories:
tenderloin, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
I Found My Heart In San Francisco
...I have a great appreciation for the song,
"I left my heart in San Francisco"*, and I have
a great understanding of why one would leave
his/her heart in such a beautiful and most
enchanting city. ...
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Categories:
tenderloin, christian, feelings, god, love,
Form: Narrative
Nothing More Frustrating Trying Damndest To Kindle Memory
...(buzzfeeding, kickstarting, needling darn noggin)
An effort to recall word, phrase,
musician... indigenous tribe...
most frustrating literary
endeavor to das scribe
aggravating enough to sub...
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Categories:
tenderloin, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Fry Day Lenten Fish
...Lenten Fry day is a nice day for fish
Witch was Peter’s holiest wish
They came from all around
When they heard that faith full sound
Into the net they swam without worry or a frown
Durin...
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Categories:
tenderloin, bible, blessing, boat, fish,
Form: Rhyme
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