Raisin Children
By Angela
Years ago the day started with bacon and egg
If you wanted some more you did not need to beg
A big breakfast's a dream,
in our new healthy scheme
Hotel buffets, tut-tut, cost a fat arm and leg
Thank you, darling, for starting our breakfast with fruit
As a sat in my silk wrap and clean birthday suit
For more, "seconds?" we plead, as we lick the last seed
As pleased picking out nuts as pirates listing loot
A big spoon makes your milky porridge go faster
A small spoon makes your dwindling porridge go laster
How much food do you need?
No, it isn't just greed
Food is fun - plus emotional sticking plaster.
copyright Angela Lansbury Jan 4th 2017
Just in case anybody missed it, there's a pun on raising children and raisin children, children raised on raisins, the modern fad for fruit and nuts.
Costing an arm and a leg, meaning a lot of money, is also taken literally to mean making you fat.
I hope you enjoy the alliteration: big breakfast, seconds and seek, pleased picking and pirates, listing loot, small spoon, food and fun, seconds and seed.
Also notice assonance and rhyme: silk and milk, egg and beg and leg, dream and scheme, buffet and tut tut, buffet and fat, sat and wrap, plead and seed, need and greed, faster and laster, and plaster.
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