I Loved the cheese straws.
This is an old one and certainly could use a little tweaking. here it is anyway:
Cooking For Sigmund
When a psychiatrist comes here to dine
what do I give him to eat?
If I try too hard he
will catalogue me
as someone who wants to compete.
If I put out a spread of cheeses and bread
he’ll think that I wish him to know
that I’m quite unimpressed
with my medical guest
and assume it is all just a show.
Shall I serve fish or meat or some pasta complete
with a vegetable sauce of complexity
which might seem laid back
and along the right track
but the devil is what the course next should be?
If I don’t make dessert, could it possibly hurt
would he read any motives in that?
A refusal of sex
and an eating complex,
with a morbid fear of getting fat?
So I’ll proffer a plate of asparagus fronds
with some anchovies, then a smoked trout
with haricot beans,
next some baked nectarines,
then I’ll show the smug analyst out.
[This message has been edited by Janet Kenny (edited November 04, 2003).]
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