Their Gastronomic Lives (Revised) Poem by Margaret Alice Second

A desperate struggle with technical text
increased hunger pains until I caved in,
ordered chips, bacon-and-eggs with ice-
cream, returned to detail this meal with
new vigour to my colleague Hanlie

She recommends publishing my own
cookbook of existential meal plans like
a bacon-and-egg with ice-cream break-
fast calling it ‘Philosophical Cookbook
for Happy Living’; embellishing her idea

I insist on including school reports like
a cookbook Fundi did; what the heck -
I shall include my analysis of Wuthering
Heights for English II and motivational
thesis for Ethically Justified Violence

All this simply to be following examples
of many pioneers creating cookbooks
with recipes lost amongst the nostalgic
stories and anecdotes which define
their gastronomic lives…

[Fundi = Expert]