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Buttered Toast

Oh how you glisten,

Your encrusted top--

Just listen for the dainty pop

Out of the fire and onto my plate--

What a wholesome loaf of fate.

 

Sing for your supper,

Write for your dinner,

If you can't

Make the dough this time,

I guess you'll be thinner.

 

The upper crust,

no muss, no fuss,

Day old bread in the bin

with the dust,

Crumbs flung in disgust-

to peck at,

The People

made to bow, as fowl,

consuming their pittance.

 

Try and run away with the

Milk and a spoon--

Cast off into an

Ocean of milk,

but the small ship sinks

with nothing but a spoon

To row through all the cream.

 

Drown the milk in chocolate,

and maybe it'll be sweeter

to choke down

past the lumpy chunks.

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Written by
miss-masque
35 / F / American
Published
Apr 8
Lines·Words
30·131
Tags
#privilege#poverty#wealthy#wagegap#food#philosophy#society#struggle
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