Breakfast Ballast
Whatever happened to toast and marmalade?
What shall we have for breakfast, dear,
some cereal perhaps?
I need a little sustenance
or I may well collapse.
Well, you’re in luck because I’ve found
a product that will please;
a breakfast food that fills you up —
it’s Macaroni Cheese!
Mac ’n’ Cheese for breakfast? Surely
that’s not what you meant?
For surely if I ate some
it would sit like hard cement.
The kids have chomped it down all week
and none of them complained.
But have you noticed, in the loo
their efforts have been strained?
How about a slice of toast?
No, we’ve run out of bread.
The larder’s full of mac ’n’ cheese,
you could try that, instead.
No fear, I don’t want belly bloat
and hyper-indigestion;
I’m getting so annoyed by your
repeated meal suggestion.
What shall we have for breakfast, dear?
I need food in a hurry.
Let’s see — ah, what’s this in the fridge…
do you fancy last night’s curry?
