Fat slabs of bacon
slapped on the griddle
sizzled and curled.
That frying pan sings its song,
flame burning
grease bubbling
never spatter-free.
Stack ‘em high
with a few tomatoes,
mayo-slathered
between some greens.
Mama says,
Make it healthy,
serve on whole wheat bread.
A second quadrille (poem of exactly 44 words, sans title) for dVerse, the virtual pub for poets. Victoria asks us to use the word “burn” or a form of the word. Thought I’d add a humorous one to the mix today. For a more sensuously burning take, go to my first post Tryst.
lillian the home poet 
Oh god…bacon…literally salivating.
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Yep — yah gotta love those hogs! 🙂
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That last line has me howling! It’s like having a diet coke with a double Big Mac! But I agree–bacon: salivating. Yum.
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Hah! Exactly! Glad you got the humor. 🙂
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How true with the bread- love this Lillian! As Homer Simpson would say, “ummmm, bacon.”
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Smiling I am at your comment here! 🙂
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For sure Lillian, that whole wheat bread makes it a balanced meal
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Absolutely: vegetables and whole grains that sop up the fats! What can be more healthy?
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I always buy some fruit with dessert
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Ahahaha! Nice!
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I can smell it now. Mmmmm. Love bacon!!! It is hard to make it healthy but the greens n whole wheat bread will do it for me. 😁
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Ha… the healthy in this I love..
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HAha.. tHis reMinds me..
mY smEll went aWay afTer
A Cold last Spring and when
it came
back
ice cream
smelled like
bacon and
bacon didn’t smell
like bacon then on the
Solar Eclipse Summer Night
for me at least i identified
it as a Doomsday Smell
then the rest is hiStory
so far and with
A Youth
Full
Spirit
Fighting back now
out there the smell
is groWing normal now
perHaps one day bacon
And ice cream will come back separate..
As Love Wins aGaiN aS Hope aWay from lies oF Fear and hAte
And tEars and other ‘stuFF’.. it’s True ‘that’ smelled like ‘bacon’ too..
buT
burnT
WitH A dArK T..
RuMP RoaST.. Hehe..;)
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Ooooh delicious write, Lillian!💞
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Something I could never do now. Funny how tastes change.
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What a clever poem. It made me hungry, lillian
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Sounds good, with or without whole wheat!
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I like this phrase: “never spatter-free” On my diet I’m not allowed wheat whole or partial.
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Mmmmm. This makes me HUNGRY! 😉
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Was just having a conversation on Facebook with a friend about bacon, and it made me hungry. Good thing I went to go get lunch before I read this. 🙂
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