Fancy Bread

[Erthona]

Where is fancy bread,
at the market…or
at home instead?
 
erthona
 
©2016

[RiverNotch]

Sweet sentiment, although I sort of disagree with the ellipsis, this being all short already. Also, and I really couldn't resist,

At your mother's home --
still in the oven, in fact:
guess who's the baker?

[Achebe]

with apologies to both authors:-

Tell me where is fancy bread:
in the mart, or homey-stead,
with nougat and cream nourished?
Reply, reply.

'Tis endangered by franchise,
like formulaic storefront pies
beloved only of the flies.

What if I said fancy bread
was in a lass's drawers instead,*
with a heigh and a ho and a heigh nonnino?


*desk drawers, where she stores foreign currency, you pervert!

[RiverNotch]

I accept your apology, not for the verse, which was fun, but for rhyming "nourished" with "bread" and "stead" -- or at least that's how I read it.

[Achebe]

I accept your apology, not for the verse, which was fun, but for rhyming "nourished" with "bread" and "stead" -- or at least that's how I read it.

Ah - no, it's a spoof of 'Tell me where is fancy bred' from the Merchant of Venice!
the last strophe is an allusion to another poem, 'It was a lover and his lass' - from Love's Labour's Lost

[RiverNotch]

I accept your apology, not for the verse, which was fun, but for rhyming "nourished" with "bread" and "stead" -- or at least that's how I read it.

Ah - no, it's a spoof of 'Tell me where is fancy bred' from the Merchant of Venice!
the last strophe is an allusion to another poem, 'It was a lover and his lass' - from Love's Labour's Lost

See, it still hurts (it always does -- I would smack all the poets of their time for it, if I had the chance) and having read the Merchant of Venice a bunch of times now, it only hurts even more that I didn't notice that. 

[Erthona]

You were both being so clever you missed the pun, but points to cleverness, especially cross referencing to another poem.

dale

[Erthona]

Where then is Fancy bred,
well at home is what she said.


dale

[RiverNotch]

Where is fancy bread or bred?
A pun, they say -- well I say, nay!
For I, a boulanger Alsatian,
am also a lover of shepherds --!

[Erthona]

Well the third would follow the second, but have nothing to do with the first.

I noticed your new avatar, is that what your name hinges on?

dale

[RiverNotch]

Nah, it just looks the most like me, is why I chose it.

[Achebe]

Unhinged - nice visual pun

[RiverNotch]

An unhinged butt, yes. Or perhaps a butt unhinged.

[Erthona]

So I guess you are very holy?

[ellajam]

Just a little holiness around the edges.

[Erthona]

Hard as nails otherwise