06-07-2016, 05:48 AM
Green Tyranny
Last Sunday morning, having made
a single serving of Eggs Benedict
but with smoked salmon and
a Sauce Bearnaise instead of Hollandaise,
I plated it on antique glass,
watched carefully, trod slowly
so as not to spill a drop
of such laboriously founded victuals
and saw the fair white Sauce Bearnaise
when brought beneath the light of twisty bulbs
turn pea-soup green.
Thank God the egg that lay beneath,
its yolk poached golden yellow,
at least was decently concealed!
It all ate well, but what a shock -
fine food turned sickly by
a heinous, tyrant spectrum.
Last Sunday morning, having made
a single serving of Eggs Benedict
but with smoked salmon and
a Sauce Bearnaise instead of Hollandaise,
I plated it on antique glass,
watched carefully, trod slowly
so as not to spill a drop
of such laboriously founded victuals
and saw the fair white Sauce Bearnaise
when brought beneath the light of twisty bulbs
turn pea-soup green.
Thank God the egg that lay beneath,
its yolk poached golden yellow,
at least was decently concealed!
It all ate well, but what a shock -
fine food turned sickly by
a heinous, tyrant spectrum.
Non-practicing atheist