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Contests : Wergle Flomp Free Poetry Contest : Past Winners : 2004 : Claire Mongeau
IF WE MUST EAT ESCARGOT WITH PLASTIC SPORKS
If we must eat escargot with plastic sporks
In starred restaurants, where boys snort at our fare
While round us they use ruby knives and forks
To scrape Bazooka bubblegum from their chairs
If we eat snails oh let us nobly munch
So that ten-cents-a-spork be not in vain
We defy the snooty waiters with a hunch
They wish they had a spork so deep ingrained!
Oh spork! You prevail against all things gross and slimy
Though neither fork nor spoon, we still adore
You described by English words of "Blimey!"
How else can we survive snails off the floor?
Like desperate fiends we struggle with our meat
But the escargot — they run too fast to eat!
Sent as a joke to Poetry.com,
this poem won an honorable mention in the 2004 Wergle Flomp parody poetry contest sponsored by Winning Writers.
About Claire Mongeau
I am a high school student at a parochial school in Rochester, NY.
Besides writing poems, I enjoy running, theater, music, and traveling. I have won several local awards including a library poetry contest and the
Susan B. Anthony public speaking contest and essay contest. I have also been published in the school literary magazine.
Poetry.com was quite thrilled to receive my poem, and offered me a chance to have my poem published in an anthology and recorded on a six-disc CD set!
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