Sunday, 10 January 2021

A Poem a Day (347): Daily Special

 
 
Daily Special
 
Your options are on the menu card.
Hey, what’s cooking? The tasty scoop.
Take your pick on the chopping board,
choose strife or an easy life.
 
Fail to choose, the waiter will serve you
the chalkboard’s Meal of the Day.
Use your chopsticks wisely
in the dessert you fall into.
 
You might work your way up
over decades of hard graft
only to lose it all in a day,
walk a different road
 
cos your usual one is closed.
Today’s culinary options are limited,
the economy constricted,
leaving a shortage of ingredients:
 
just the one meat course.
Hold your nose if you can’t swallow.
The other diners want to know
how it tastes.
 
 
Copyright Vickie Johnstone, January 10, 2021
 
 
 
 
 

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