Re: SPAM!
Lauren Rene Hotchkiss (laurhot@ix.netcom.com)
Thu, 3 Oct 1996 11:49:42 -0700
Ham and/or Rita wrote:
>
>Oh SPAM(tm)! Oh SPAM(tm)! Gourmet delight!
>My food by day, my dreams by night.
>To carve, to slice, to dice you up -
>pureed in a blender and sipped from a cup.
>
>What shining deity from Olympus knelt
>down to the earth and hog butt smelt?
>Creating then man's eternal desire
>for swine entrails congealed by fire.
>
>On some corporate farm, a pig has died.
>Eyes, tongue, and snout end up inside
>that cube of SPAM(tm) hidden in the can
>I now hold in my trembling hand.
>
>More than mere food, SPAM(tm) is for me
>a hedonistic expression of gluttonous glee.
>Mottled with pork fat, the pink cube engrosses.
>My mouth takes it in, my intestine disposes.
>
>Long have my arteries clogged to the sound
>of sizzling SPAM(tm) when there's no one around -
>furtively chewing or swallowing whole.
>Triple bypass by forty, my medical goal.
>
>Other processed meat products I've tried or declined
>Vienna Sausages, Treet, even pig's feet in brine.
>Though each may be tasty in different ways,
>none matches SPAM(tm) for gelatinous glaze.
>
>That glistening pinkness beckons me
>with gristle, fat, and BHT.
>Oh SPAM(tm), my SPAM(tm) - the taste, the smell!
>The sacred meat product, from Hormel.
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Oh no!!! Not more Spam. I'll be good and practice my scales
every day.
Lauren