Wolfgang Puck, Cook

      "Rich in shrimp, and fed fat by feeding,
      my nouveau cuisine and halapino peppers stuff
      the moneyed throats of stockbrokers like a tickertape,
      quoting every appetite to the last eighth of desire.
5     On my empire the sun sets flaming like a peach's pit;
      inverted pigs stare naked and wrinkled from their hooks,
      flayed Bartholomews, while I boil the mother sow
      to a tasty vinegrette my salt palm spices.
      Others boil, teeming with a prosperous guilt
10    my low_cal meals can baptize and cure; slimmed
      by the communion wafer_sized servings at the steel counter,
      they smile. I smile from my orange hell of steam.
      My father was a butcher like the bard's, often said:
      'Let each man's conscience, sick, and thin with pining
15    like a scythe,
      razor his wet brains apart, in bloody pieces like spaghetti.'"

 

From the collection "Contemporaries"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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