Poem A Day Challenge Prompt 1 - Origins
Prompt 1 - A poem about origins.
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Let's Eat It!
the question, for me
isn’t which came first
so much as who ate first?
I’m curious about
that fried egg
staring back at me
from my breakfast plate
who is this person
that one day thought
let’s crack an egg
cook that gooey stuff?
it will be tasty
with butter and salt!
and what about
the culinary genius
who turned ruined milk
into curds and whey
butter milk and cheese?
it’s rotten milk,
sour and a bit chunky
but hey let’s give it a taste
it might be great!
Grandma always told us
you have to par boil
and drain poke salad
three times or it’s poison
Wikipeda says it’s true
I just wonder who
figured out that
thrice-boiled trick
and did they first
watch two others get sick
and risk tasting the re-boiled
stuff one more time?
I don’t even want to know
why people in
bury cabbage or eggs
and let them rot
who decided rotten food
was a epicurean delicacy
an acquired taste?
and who would want
to acquire such a taste, anyway?
not to mention
calf fries or cow brains
gizzards or tongue
or boiled crawfish heads
I just wonder how
this crazy buffet got started
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