Tofu Poems - Poems about Tofu

almost showed off

...(There’s a song for this: ‘Confessions’ by Sudan Archives)

I remember it like it was yesterday (it was yesterday).

I arrived on a cool (42°f), blindingly sunny New Haven afternoon. It was as if...

I Love K Food

...I love Korean food
K food

Ever since I first 
Encountered it in 1979
When I joined the Peace Corps

Korean food is somewhat like
Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Thai
With some American i...

Grocery Poem Ix

...I watched a man in a red and black flannel shirt
walk into the bathroom holding a box of tofu
 and then
the man in the flannel shirt walked out without it.

He is alive and breathing just like m...

At a Museless Wake

...My muse is on fire, she burns at the stake 
  guilty of poetasting, and glaring mistakes
  Inferior rhymes with old Monoku outtakes 
  blaze all around her, as embers are raked 
   Badly blistere...

To Beef Or Not To Beef

...I’m a free spirit rising 
a freethinker dreaming 
Stoically climbing 
the surreal limbo bar,
But I don’t know why 
i’m no bright spark 
for split seconds on fire
lighting up the dark 

Yet w...

Spineless In the Running

...Was this a bold  endeavour or worst-case high risk plot?
 In one sense I was caught between two poles apart  concerns.
One must never underestimate indeed trivialise a devilish 
difficult decision...

Last Thanksgiving

...Last Thanksgiving our vegan Aunt Marie
Served tofu turkey and beansprout green tea
The dinner was quite frightful
Yet we all cheered delightful!
This Thanksgiving it's Del Taco for me

11/16/22...

Light Verse and Nonsense Verse Iv

...LIGHT VERSE AND NONSENSE VERSE IV

Anti-Vegan Manifesto
by Michael R. Burch

Let us
avoid lettuce,
sincerely,
and also celery!


Rising Fall
by Michael R. Burch

after Keats

Seasons ...

Simply Not a Food

...
Insipid, tasteless, no excuse,
a texture somewhat like a sponge.
I see it served in ways gourmet,
but they’re not fooling anyone.

My father had a fancy boat,
so elsewhere, we were so...

A Vegan Pug

...A big meat eater in Tampa Bay
became a vegan for his fiancé
But his pug feels forsaken
with his bland tofu bacon
So he’s calling the S.P.C.A...

My Sweet Minichu

...Minichu kidding me?
I know Pikachu and tofu, but Minichu?
Like really?

Okay, I'll play.
Minichu like I know how to...
Some say.

Ha ha!
Easy for you.
Bah!

Minichu kidding me?
Minichu l...

Fake Meat

...Thank God for vegetarians there is more meat for me
just wish those militant vegans would let me be
It's not that I don't like vegetables I'm easy to please
just flavor that pot of green beans wit...

Mcdonald Accidental Over Spice Their Chicken Batter

...The new Mc Spicy is born
Can i have non vanilla non milk milkshake
shaken vertically then horizontal then metaphorically
Why isn't there a kft-Kentucky fried turkey
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Doggerel Ii

...Doggerel II: Doggerel about Doggerel, or, More Nonsense Verse

The Board
by Michael R. Burch

Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood:
soft titters from dark board rooms wher...

Stop and Shop Strike

...The Stop & Shop strike v. Game of Thrones. 
In Game what’s not made plain
is the condition of the people
compared with warriors and queens.
There’s no mention of land-clearance, tree-felling, 
p...

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