As for the cake:
it was a Blueberry & Banana cake;
that, to my mind,
had no banana taste at all.
Blueberry, much, banana not much,
not some, not any.
Tasty, definitely;
but, not of banana.
I do admit that there are
an awful lot of banana mentions
in this poem,
but no ‘actual’ bananas.
It was a very nice piece of cake?
this is a poor poem,
glad I had the cake;
happy to memorialise it in words.
A gateau in a chateau
was compared unfavourably
with a cake in a lake.
This state of affairs
came about
because the gateau in the chateau
was in rural France,
and the cake in the lake
(the lake being dry)
was nearby in the Cake District.
.
If, by another chance,
the writer of this
had been in France,
the gateau in the chateau
would have won
over the cake in the lake.
.
Allegedly.
“…. and as many carrots as you can eat!”
“Well, that wouldn’t be that many.”
“Three or four do you?”
“I should say so!”
“We could put them in a cake.”
“Whole? Or crunched?”
“Common consensus has it that grated is best.”
“That makes sense. Okay, I’ll go for the ‘Cake with Carrots In’.”
“I think it’s called a Carrot Cake.”
“Well, whatever it’s called, put me down for one with an option on further ‘Carrot Cakes’ in the future.”
“Do you bake cakes?”
“Not all of them are baked”, you reply. “These cardboard ones are raw.”
“Fake cakes?!” I queried, using the interrobang with relish.
“Jake, our fake cake baker, makes them.”
“For goodness sake! Jake is your fake cake baker – that takes the biscuit.”
“He bakes those, too. Would you care to partake?”
“Have Cape: Will Fly!”
“Have cake – staying firmly on the ground.”
That’s a thing, you see.
I changed one letter of a word
and a strange thing occurred.
“Cape – not Cake!”
or, more likely,
“Cake – not Cape!”
will be the brash slogan/s
of the future,
there for all to see,
whether hero or zero …
‘Hero – not Zero!”
or, more likely …
“Zero – not Hero!”
will also be up there
on the billboards
in letters twenty feet high!
Now wouldn’t that be a thing?
Always look beyond the cake,
there is more to life than cake;
there is sea and sun
and cake;
love and laughter
and cake;
family and friends
and cake.
Okay, there is cake
and other things, too.
I’m a fruitcake,
you’re a fruitcake,
everybody here is a fruitcake.
What does it take
to be a fruitcake?
Answer:
fruit and cake
put them together
and what does it make?
Walnut Cake
Walnut Cake
is a cake made of Walnuts
and various other ingredients;
but not coffee –
otherwise it would be a Coffee and Walnut Cake
(or, less often, a Walnut and Coffee Cake).
However, what goes nicely
with a slice of Walnut Cake
is a cup of coffee.
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