The Scariest Toy in the World...

Made it back from Wichita safely! Highlights of the trip include: listening to my sister play a Brahms french horn concerto, eating the most De-li-cious Chocolate cake with coffee buttercream cake that my Dad made, goofing around with my dad's microphone, watching my sister "cure" a raccoon hide in the dark with a chorus of cackling coyotes in the background, learning how to build a fire and enjoying said fire, sunday morning latte, getting to visit with lots of family at the birthday party mums and jim threw for me (thank you!) and eating all the yummy snacks they baked. it was a coffee-themed birthday party, so there was lots more coffee. :) just being with family, friends, and relaxing. Wonderful time all around!! My dad bought that horrifying finger puppet somewhere...Seattle, i think. i decided more people need to know that sort of thing exists. :)
today's poem is another food-based-fight poem. so i'm becoming suspicious that i have food-based issues. As in, harboring secret guilt for a form of coffee snobbery that manifests itself in literally sneering at people who order frappuccinos. (they're just Wrong!!) Anyway, like Glen and Henrietta, today's friends will experience a rift because of differing tastes in food. This time, one has baked the other a cake, which he just cannot choke down. (p.s. if anyone knows how to keep photos from loading sideways, i'd appreciate a sharing of this knowledge!) Here 'tis:

"It's more like eating dirt than some
Delectable, I fear.
I'd guess it's 'cause you haven't washed
Your mixing bowls this year."
"But dirt's the very spice of life!
To me, it's...apple pie.
And what's the point of having all
Your dishes reek of lye?"
"All right, dear friend--now do calm down,
You have the strangest tastes,
But I won't let this lovely chocolate
Cake go all to waste!"
"What, chocolate?! Gross! For love of earth,
This here's Mud-Spangled Cake!
A family recipe as old
As the great Pacific lake!
The best darn cake you'll Ever eat,
You pompous, sweet-toothed snob!"
"Ha, ha. That statement 'takes the cake'
You grimy, spineless slob!"
Another fight incensed by food,
Another friendship lost...
This time, between Elvira Worm
And Kirk the Albatross.