The oatmeal you served me was stale!
And my dinner? How dare you serve kale!
The meals here don’t thrill me.
You trying to kill me?
Better not, or I’ll see you in jail!
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(National Kale Day falls on the first Wednesday of October.)
The oatmeal you served me was stale!
And my dinner? How dare you serve kale!
The meals here don’t thrill me.
You trying to kill me?
Better not, or I’ll see you in jail!
*****
(National Kale Day falls on the first Wednesday of October.)
Tags: Complaint Humor, Complaint Limerick, Crime & Punishment Humor, Crime Limerick, Customer Humor, Customer Limerick, Food Humor, Food Limerick, Kale, Kale Day, Kale Humor, Kale Limerick, National Kale Day, Oatmeal Humor, October Holidays, Odd Holidays
Posted in Behavior & Personality, Food & Drink Humor, Odd Holidays | 2 Comments »
Did you know that today, March 25th, is International Waffle Day? Me neither. And if you feel compelled to celebrate waffles twice each year, National Waffle Day and the waffle iron patent are celebrated on August 24th.
So why am I telling you this? Because I’m obediently rising to the challenge of writing a poem about breakfast. And I stumbled upon all this waffle nonsense while doing some poetic procrastination.
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Ode to Breakfast
By Madeleine Begun Kane
Oatmeal breaks my fast
when I arise,
though it tastes like paste
in breakfast guise.
Why not something else
I don’t despise?
Cuz I hate each choice
those chefs devise.
Waffles, eggs, French toast
grits — some may prize.
But hot oatmeal’s quick.
So enough with the “whys.”
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While I’m at it, here’s a haiku about my favorite morning (and afternoon and pretty much all day) beverage:
Coffee never tempts,
but denied cappuccino
then call me verklempt.
*****
UPDATE: October 29 is National Oatmeal Day.
Tags: Breakfast Verse, Caffeine Humor, Cappuccino Haiku, Celebrations Poetry, Food Poem, Food Verse, Holiday Humor, Inventions Poem, National Oatmeal Day, Oatmeal Day, Oatmeal Humor, October Holidays, Odd Holidays, Waffles
Posted in Celebrations Poetry, Food & Drink Humor, Holiday Humor, Light Verse, Limericks, Odd Holidays | 11 Comments »
Mad Kane (Madeleine Begun Kane) is a writer, musician, and "recovering lawyer." She won the Robert Benchley Society Award For Humor and enjoys writing limericks, song parodies, and current events haiku.
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