Three rashers a day
is all I can have.
Three rashers a day and five veg.
A small glass of wine is really OK
poured precisely from
unit pipettes.

No fags are allowed
and weed's still illegal,
but three rashers
can grace my plate.
Must it be back
or is streaky permitted?
Does the seventy grams include fat?

I can eat lots of eggs,
they have been found
not guilty,
but a brussel sprout omelette
lacks
je ne sais quoi.

I'll reflect on this guidance
when thought is conducive
after my brandy,
pie, chips
and cigar.

© Malcolm Saunders (Malpoet)


25 Feb 2011 - Government experts urging Britons to eat less meat
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Retired, cantankerous, libertarian and occasionally a poet, I am probably malodorous, but seek to avoid being malicious or malevolent so I vent malapert musings through malpoetry.

Malpoet blog

Libyans

Muammar Gaddafi’s lost face
Prevented him leaving with grace.
So chaos will follow.
Their victory hollow
When somebody worse take his place!

© Stafford Ray

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Not going to work

…and not going to work 

Is not going to work

© Jason T Richardson

Rising youth unemployment, low pay – for teenagers it really is so unfair

Nintendo DS, Nintendo DS,
I’m falling in love and I have to confess
That I long to embrace
Your smooth plastic case
All the curves of your surface, Nintendo DS.

Nintendo DS! Do you feel the same way?
Do your buttons all tingle when my thumbs are at play?
I’ve had more consoles, true,
But none quite like you
I don’t stay and play with my PlayStation all day.

Say quickly, Nintendo! What you intend – oh!,
You hold me in places Xbox cannot go!
When I touch iPod touch
I don’t feel half as much
As when…

Nintendo!

Excuse me!

I have to go Wii!

© Tim Train

Nintendo DS All Time Highest Oz Seller As Market Sinks

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Tim blogs at Will Type For Food

Editors' note: Other makes and games are available!

Justice taking form, stop

uber hacker
leading the way,

information for the people, stop

alien tresses, attitude,

no giving up.

All is not lost,

sign of the times,

seismic shift in paradigm, stop
assuage no one

no way back,

genius programs
everything known, stop

© Gabrielle Bryden

Wikileaks: no proof that Julian Assange encouraged leak

Gabrielle Bryden is an Australian poet published in Ripples, Speedpoets, Extempore magazines; Cherry Blossom Review, Lunarosity, Divan, Bolts of Silk, Third Eye, Specusphere ezines; and on national ABC Radio.

The unhaloed saints,
The people looking
more and more like God.
The holy carrying
fallen angels on their shoulders.
The apotheosis shouting grace
like pollen germinating
possible miracles.

© Jo Maurits


New protests in Arab States

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Jo's Blog is A Nana's Journey

We overslept
the American Dream.
The Industrial Revolution
was a nightmare.

We can lie all day
in the bed we made
because our jobs have gone
South of the Border.
The American flag
is “made in China.”
Our “buy now pay later”
bill is due.

© Colleen Redman
Made in America: A Brief History of U.S. Manufacturing

Colleen Redman: In the same way a baby puts everything in his mouth to see what it is like, I put words on paper.

I also blog daily at Loose Leaf Notes. http://looseleafnotes.com

Shall all thy fusty books and dusty shelves
Be let alone, to store the wastrel word
Of those who failed to educate themselves
For usefulness in banking? How absurd
To hope that we might wish thee to live on!
Thou art not profitable; get thee gone.

© Philip Challinor

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Weblog: The Curmudgeon - You'll come for the curses. You'll stay for the mudgeonry.
Books: Philip Challinor's Books