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 | Tea and Crumpets, Crumpets and Jam. (a sestina) |
| Tea and Crumpets, Crumpets and Jam (a sestina) Tea and crumpets, crumpets and jam To put these together correctly is a delicate art Success in it, makes all others appear as dwellers of a cave And although perhaps not the greatest accomplishment of man But surely they make our lives easier to live That's a bet Iâd be willing to bank I wish to open up my own shop, I shall go to the bank Take out a loan, build to bake, a haven in this peopled traffic jam Those who in this neighborhood do live Shall be graced with high culinary art Soulless food shall no longer be consumed by man As this town finds the sun and leaves the cave Yet we must not speak harshly of our roots in a cave For it was they who discovered fire, by some grand riverbank This can rightly be called one of the most wonderful discoveries of man And we must remember, without it there would be no crumpets with jam And that artful food has its root in cave paintings and wall art Oh what a mighty journey the crumpet has made, to the hands of those who now live And the tea will be made on the spot, the crumpets live The yeast will make its home in an ovenly cave Rather than paintings, teapots on the walls shall be our art And picnics will be abundant, on the creekâs bank Where people learn to walk to avoid the traffic jam And enjoy the divine nectar of man Oh what I would do to bring this joy to all of man To let all the inhabitants of earth truly live To dance out to the best sort of jam I must bring this world out of this cave But I cannot get a big enough loan from the bank Help me save this glorious art! There is no museum to sponsor this edible art No-one who cares to save man And all are ignorant that work at the bank Soon nobody will live Soon all will retreat to a cave Where mud is the only jam Surely you can help me save this art, help the world live, No loans from the bank to make it happen, the world needs you to get it out of this jam, Be the man, lead the way out of the cave. ----------- |
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