How I love guacamole salad
this murky mucky marvel
to eat is to imbibe
Great green gobs of avocado
add onions to create
a dubious delight
Admittedly it is the ugliest
of foods in name
and in appearance
The ignorant may hesitate
to part their lips and
give it clearance
But those who know will swear
that it quite simply
can ’t be beaten
although it begs the question:
is it to eat
or already eaten?
It ’s true that this peculiar
and garish
game-time
lump
resembles nothing
so much as a
dinosaur
dump
It may look like a lineman
but it ’s really
Broadway Joe
See how it holds court
it ’s the star
of the show
Ole
for
guacamole!
This mangy cur is a friendly
beast, one nobody
could hate
It may be muddy, but it ’s
everyone ’s buddy. It
doesn ’t discriminate
You can savor it
in flip-flops or in
a tie and suit
Its source, the avocado
is truly an
avuncular fruit
On trees these tidy
twosomes are a rather
manly sight
But how does such
art transform into
such blight?
We can only surmise
the origin of its
smushed-up state
Perhaps an Aztec sat
upon a ripe one
by mistake
Bravo
for
the avo!
Some jump out of planes, others
take up arms. Courage
is their creed
but the one who discovered guacamole
salad was a brave one (a
lucky one) indeed
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Clay Carpenter is a newspaper copy editor in Corpus Christi, Texas. Truth be told, he wishes he could spend eight hours a day writing poems instead of headlines.