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The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
Comments are welcomed! And couching them in Poetry is definitely NOT required.
Do not explicitly reveal any of the actual answer words until after closing time, but embedding them surreptitiously in comment sentences is encouraged.
The chef was an expert at his trade,
ReplyDeleteHe knew how every dish was made!
Knew what sauces should be stiff or soupy,
Even knew how to chop sushi or suey!
Running his kitchen was dead easy,
He only had to fix foods that were eaty.
His restaurant also featured entertainment,
To help diners digest his served aliment!
A Western band had an impact on patrons,
When they started a two-step sensation!
The chef came out to join in the glee,
But missed steps; not as easy as a recipe!
Try this one aloud—at speed.
ReplyDeleteYou may see why I am inclined to add this short verse to the speech exercises used to cure actors of lazy mouths.
“Impact Fact”
Easily one of the many missteps
when running seafood shops
is wasting one’s manly biceps
in slinging soupy sushi slops.
~ OMK
"Rookie Cook"
ReplyDeleteLucy enjoyed making sushi
and preferred it when it was juicy
though that easily made it soupy
and its texture lost impact
even when it wasn't stacked.
These missteps in her cooking
lost her her job
but she keeps looking
for work at a cafe
that will her salary pay.
Eaty?
ReplyDeleteEaty, Owen?
Hell, yeah!
I love it when you go full Humpty-Dumpty.
OMK
A nice neat job from our Misty to round off our starters today.
ReplyDeleteA solid march through her Lucy's missteps...
all the way to that recalcitrant coda!
~ OMK
Ol' Man Keith, I followed your suggestion and read your morning verse out loud.
ReplyDeleteYou were right: your last line--slinging soupy sushi slops--cracked me up. A real treat.
Wonderful morning restaurant poem, Owen. I would never have imagined rhyming
ReplyDelete"recipe" with "glee." And I've never heard of "aliment" and had to look it up: archaic for food and nourishment, apparently. Fun to learn something new in your verse.
Owen ~ I knew "aliment" previously only through association with the "alimentary tract" we studied in school.
ReplyDelete(And maybe I recall it [a fuzzy recall] from some TV cooking show.)
But on my first scan today I thought the word was "ailment." That gave me a strange reading of your stanza: I thought the Chef was maybe some kinda "Typhoid Harry."
~ OMK
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PS. But "eaty" is still my fave.
I guess when soupy and sushi appear it's a fact
ReplyDeleteThat restaurant jargon will surely have an impact
BTW, Owen, your Sunday poem was most excellent. One of your better ones, too, Misty
Omk, thanks for the good wishes for my Saturday C&L as well as Sandy and Misty.
WC
Dictionaries can never catch up.
ReplyDeleteThey are presumptuous, calling "aliment"--or any old word--archaic.
Once we use it, it is not.