{"id":33769,"date":"2014-04-30T09:09:54","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T01:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tribune.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=33769"},"modified":"2014-04-30T09:09:54","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T01:09:54","slug":"scrumptious-sonnets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/scrumptious-sonnets\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrumptious Sonnets"},"content":{"rendered":"

A HOTDOG RETURNS<\/strong>
\nThey sold me, right after I cooked, because my smell
\nTo them seemed piquant and delicious in the air
\nThat aroma slowly wafting everywhere
\nWith its warm succulent fragrance casting a spell
\nAll around until no nose would have a nostril
\nThat had not had its nasal passages stirred.
\nThen its neural receptors in the grey matter
\nSent everyone a most mouth watering message
\nFrom me. Pile those hot dogs high on a platter.
\nBut this boiled world is not my only visage.
\nIndeed one might say, This Frankfurter sometimes frys,
\nI should acknowledge my Viennese heritage
\nAnd love of Italian-Polish sausage allies
\nPerhaps, once, with sweet relish, I dreamed of mustard.<\/p>\n

THE KERNELS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kernels! Kernels! Frying hot
\nIn the bottom of the pot,
\nWhat helping hand or eye would stop
\nYou and others from starting to pop?<\/p>\n

What distant field or garden meadow
\nGrew the cobs on which you grow?
\nOn what stalk in late July
\nWhich plant plucked? Which ripe to try?<\/p>\n

And what popper and which pan
\nBrings pops and kicks like Jackie Chan?
\nAnd what extremes of heat explode
\nA bag of popcorn ala mode?<\/p>\n

Kernels, kernels keep on popping open
\nWe love to taste your insides when broken<\/p>\n

WHEN RIPE WATERMELON<\/strong><\/p>\n

When ripe watermelon bursts its rind
\nAnd juicy red flesh can be seen
\nAll the fruits of summer come to mind
\nAnd watermelon is the Queen
\nThe crowning glory of any picnic
\nJust what every barbecue needs
\nThump for ripeness to get the right pick
\nHave fun, spitting out all the seeds<\/p>\n

MY FAVE BURGER RAVE<\/strong><\/p>\n

When you plant your feet on the fast food floor
\nYou\u2019ll find fat food from door to door
\nIf morbid obesity you despise
\nStay away from burgers and fries
\nTo not get fat just put on the brakes
\nStay away from pies and shakes
\nAs with drugs you can just say no
\nStart walking fast and the weight will go<\/p>\n

CUSTARD INSIDE BOSTON CREAM PIES<\/strong><\/p>\n

Custard inside Boston cream pies
\nA\u00a0target for blue bottleneck flies
\nDead wasps inside the pastry shell
\nDon\u2019t change the sweet delicious smell
\nTook a bite from a chocolate eclair
\nAnd found a two inch cockroach inside there
\nThough my delight in pastry did dissipate
\nAll that pie and ice cream kept on the weight<\/p>\n

THE PIZZA AND THE RAPPER<\/strong>
\n*after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow\u2019s The Arrow & the Song<\/p>\n

I threw some dough into the air
\nIt fell back down onto my hair
\nTrying to look like pizza pros
\nGot yeasty gobs on all my clothes
\nRapping freestyle with an old friend
\nI didn\u2019t quite know when to end
\nMy mouth did run , my lips did flap
\nRant and rhyme, ridiculous rap
\nWith more practice and sleight of hand
\nPizza dough landed in the pan
\nAnd the rap at last found an end
\nStraight out the mouth of my old friend<\/p>\n

EPISTLE TO DEEP FRIED DOUGHNUTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Why do I cook? What dish to me unknown
\nFried in a pan with a batter homegrown?
\nAs yet an uncooked spicy recipe,
\nI add chopped nuts, put on a pot of tea.
\nI leave no room for error in fried cakes,
\nNo eggs unbroken, no cooking mistakes.
\nThe cruller served and dunked in a coffee cup,
\nRolled in powdered sugar, eaten right up…<\/p>\n

EPIGRAM FOR PIZZA<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWho ate the pepperoni pizza?\u201d
\n\u201cI\u201d said Joey Connolly,
\n\u201c the whole thing by me only
\nnow I smile like Mona Lisa.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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