Fritters
O, those Eastern Market apple fritters
Passionate pastry
Impossible-as-America pastry
large as hubcaps
and only slightly more nutritious
A recipe simple as sin:
Heavy, greasy, sweet, sweet dough
Wrapped about a thick hub
Broken up by chunky pieces of apple
All fried up and sugar frosted
fresh every morning
For only a buck seventy-five
At the bussling market bakery
too large to eat alone
too good to share
if doughnuts are romance novels
these fritters are pornography
it's no wonder they're served
in brown paper bags
So, you can keep your tepid tiramisu
cheesy cheesecake
frou-frou eclairs
I have no patience
for such lustless affairs
give me shocking sugar rushes
give me fat-filled, super-caloric bliss
give me savage, plain gluttony
give me quick, no even quicker
an Eastern Market apple fritter
and put it in a brown paper bag
Oh no, thank you.
rikpanganiban
(c) july1994
Passionate pastry
Impossible-as-America pastry
large as hubcaps
and only slightly more nutritious
A recipe simple as sin:
Heavy, greasy, sweet, sweet dough
Wrapped about a thick hub
Broken up by chunky pieces of apple
All fried up and sugar frosted
fresh every morning
For only a buck seventy-five
At the bussling market bakery
too large to eat alone
too good to share
if doughnuts are romance novels
these fritters are pornography
it's no wonder they're served
in brown paper bags
So, you can keep your tepid tiramisu
cheesy cheesecake
frou-frou eclairs
I have no patience
for such lustless affairs
give me shocking sugar rushes
give me fat-filled, super-caloric bliss
give me savage, plain gluttony
give me quick, no even quicker
an Eastern Market apple fritter
and put it in a brown paper bag
Oh no, thank you.
rikpanganiban
(c) july1994
