On the Day When Anything Goes

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Open Poetry #9

On the Day When Anything Goes

Dom Mart
Member

since 1999-08-17

Posts 164
Florida

0 posted 2000-09-22 07:50 AM

Roast pork and chestnut dressing,
Baked potato and sour cream.
It's the day before my diet,
So I think that I may try it.

Fruit compote thickly sugared,
Bon bons from a spoiled girl's dream.
Of course, I'm going to try it--
It's the day before my diet.

And tomorrow you serve dumplings
Filled with cheese and savory beef?
Well, you know I'm going to try it.
But next day I start my diet.

On the day before my diet
What's the harm if I indulge
And my pelvis after dinner
Must support a growing bulge?

On the day I start my diet
I'll awaken with the sun.
I'll sip a cup of green tea
And eat a bran flake, only one.

I'll dine on celery and hard tack
Eat grapefruit by the ton,
Until my war against the flesh
Is definitively won.

So whatever chef is serving up,
I'll permit myself to try it
On any day as long as it's
The day before my diet.

Kethry
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-07-29

Posts 9082
Victoria Australia

1 posted 2000-09-22 08:27 AM

Dom Mart,
WELL DONE!
It's funny you know but today at the office we were saying, how tomorrow is national diet day and then you go and write about it.
Kethry

"It is the image in the mind that links us to lost treasures;
but it is the loss that shapes the image,
gathers the flowers weaves the garland."-

2dalimit
Member Elite

since 2000-02-08

Posts 2228
Mississippi coast

2 posted 2000-09-22 08:51 AM

I’m hommmm-gry.
I’ll start tomorrow, too.
Melton

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