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Taste the Soup

“Taste the Soup”

(Tom Entrican, 04/14/2022)

She slammed the bowl in front of me

In hopes a reaction for her to see

But I just spoke in a mellow tune

Would it be too much to ask for a spoon?

What is this dear you have given me?

For it\'s too steamy I cannot see

She popped my nose with the spoon

And barked at me, just eat the soup

What kind is it, perhaps a stew?

What’s this I see, is it a shoe?

Is it from a can, does the label say

To eat it or to run away

Perhaps I’ll wait until it cools

So that my tongue I can reuse

Shut your pie hole she rebuked

Grab your spoon and eat the soup

Did I see lye upon the stove?

Maybe arsenic, perhaps a dose.

Some rattle snake or donkey tail

Did you cook it in a rusty pail?

It is not that I mistrust you dear

But at times your cooking strips my gears

You get what I cook you ornery coot

So can the chatter and eat the soup

In total fear I took a taste

Hoping it was not nuclear waste

Said perhaps tomorrow it will be good

And on my head went the rest of the soup