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The Health-Food Diner - Poem by Maya Angelou
The Health-Food Diner
No sprouted wheat and soya shoots
And Brussels in a cake,
Carrot straw and spinach raw,
(Today, I need a steak).
Not thick brown rice and rice pilaw
Or mushrooms creamed on toast,
Turnips mashed and parsnips hashed,
(I'm dreaming of a roast).
Health-food folks around the world
Are thinned by anxious zeal,
They look for help in seafood kelp
(I count on breaded veal).
No smoking signs, raw mustard greens,
Zucchini by the ton,
Uncooked kale and bodies frail
Are sure to make me run
to
Loins of pork and chicken thighs
And standing rib, so prime,
Pork chops brown and fresh ground round
(I crave them all the time).
Irish stews and boiled corned beef
and hot dogs by the scores,
or any place that saves a space
For smoking carnivores.
Topic(s) of this poem: food
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No smoking signs, raw mustard greens,
Zucchini by the ton,
Uncooked kale and bodies frail
Are sure to make me run
to
Loins of pork and chicken thighs
great
great 10+++++++++++++++++++ (Report)Reply
You are the best poem makers but you need to make more better poems for health (Report)Reply
eating healthy is good for you. (Report)Reply
and hot dogs by the scores,
or any place that saves a space
For smoking carnivores
Lovely poem. (Report)Reply
I count on breaded vea (Report)Reply
Interesting nutritive diet-poem.....unusual food thought.....10+++ (Report)Reply
....excellent poem with great rhythm and rhyme ★ (Report)Reply
It would be better with a theme rather, all the other poems essence very good, buy the idea capture of food swap seems a central theme, that was conveyed in circumlocution. But overall rhyme syncs to the theme. (Report)Reply
lol, this is a very interesting poem, I like it. (Report)Reply