Michelle wrote:
> On Monday, January 4, 2016 at 3:32:37 PM UTC-6, wrote:
>> Enjoy!
>>
>> (If you don't know his poems, he was always funny.)
>>
>> http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-clean-plater/
>>
>> "Some singers sing of ladies' eyes,
>> And some of ladies lips,
>> Refined ones praise their ladylike ways,
>> And course ones hymn their hips.
>> The Oxford Book of English Verse
>> Is lush with lyrics tender;
>> A poet, I guess, is more or less
>> Preoccupied with gender.
>> Yet I, though custom call me crude,
>> Prefer to sing in praise of food.
>> Food,
>> Yes, food,
>> Just any old kind of food.
>> Pheasant is pleasant, of course,
>> And terrapin, too, is tasty,
>> Lobster I freely endorse,
>> In pate or patty or pasty.
>> But there's nothing the matter with butter,
>> And nothing the matter with jam,
>> And the warmest greetings I utter
>> To the ham and the yam and the clam.
>> For they're food,
>> All food,
>> And I think very fondly of food.
>> Through I'm broody at times
>> When bothered by rhymes,
>> I brood
>> On food.
>> Some painters paint the sapphire sea,
>> And some the gathering storm.
>> Others portray young lambs at play,
>> But most, the female form.
>> 'Twas trite in that primeval dawn
>> When painting got its start,
>> That a lady with her garments on
>> Is Life, but is she Art?
>> By undraped nymphs
>> I am not wooed;
>> I'd rather painters painted food.
>> Food,
>> Just food,
>> Just any old kind of food.
>> Go purloin a sirloin, my pet,
>> If you'd win a devotion incredible;
>> And asparagus tips vinaigrette,
>> Or anything else that is edible.
>> Bring salad or sausage or scrapple,
>> A berry or even a beet.
>> Bring an oyster, an egg, or an apple,
>> As long as it's something to eat.
>> If it's food,
>> It's food;
>> Never mind what kind of food.
>> When I ponder my mind
>> I consistently find
>> It is glued
>> On food."
>
> Another favorite of his:
> Who wants my jellyfish?
> I'm not sellyfish!
>

And a classic:

The truth I do not stretch or shove
When I state that the dog is full of love.
I've also found, by actual test,
A wet dog is the lovingest.
Ogden Nash