Recipe For Cooking Carp Poem by Spock the Vegan
Recipe For Cooking Carp
Grandpa told me the way to cook
A carp freshly off the hook
No need to clean it or fillet
No need to measure it or to weigh
You place it gently on a pine board
Pack it in clay mud, but not a horde
Bake 4 hours then peel off the clay
Remove the carp and throw it away
Wash the mud from off the pine
Now eat the board, sprinkled with brine
Cute poem! I don't think I have ever heard of this recipe before.
Here's an example I found of an epigram: Epigrams often contain an opposition or a contradiction that generate their witty " twist, " as in the poet Ogden Nash's most famous epigram: " Candy / Is dandy, / But liquor / Is quicker."
Okay, I googled " epigram poetry definition" and this is what came back: An epigram is a short, pithy saying, usually in verse, often with a quick, satirical twist at the end. The subject is usually a single thought or event. At least the satirical twist at the end fits... Not so sure about the " short" (and now I have to look up " pithy" ;)
As I look at your poem again, it looks to me like it is written in couplets. I still have not looked up " epigram" . Will do that now.
Looks like our families had similar recipes! Mine has been passed down from generation to generation also. You say yours is an " epigram" poem. I never heard of that. Will have to look it up. (Of course, there are lots of forms I'm not familiar with.)
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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4/24/2024 10:35:59 AM # 1.0.0.1119
Hilarious. My grandfather also had a similar recipe.
This was a sort of joke, but Gramps taught me a lot of things like how to straighten out a crooked nail to reuse it.