I don't know if you've been told,
Groc'ry store bagels never mold.
Days and weeks and months go by -
No bagel mold, do you know why?
Wheat bread in a week in plastic bag,
Gets little green spots that make you gag.
Open the bag and take a whiff,
Wind up and pitch it off a cliff!
Microorganisms eat what they can use;
When on bagels they don't reproduce.
If they want to eat them and they try,
They shrivel up and then they die.
Will you live longer if you eat a bagel?
Better check your mortality table.
Full of preservatives and pesticides,
Which your mortality table divides.
Want to live a long time - until you're old?
Eat homemade bread quickly before it molds.
You want your bagel to give you good luck?
Dry it out and use it for hockey puck.
Wow! That homemade bread looks good. My mother used to make bread like that. Nice poem. I'm not sure it's true that grocery store bagels never mold, however. Maybe I will go buy some and put it to the test.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
Nice poem! I learn something new every day.