1971 Poetry by Michael F. Nyiri

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"Bread and Hot Butter"

Make your breakfast, buddy.
Make it so it's good.
Make your breakfast, buddy.
And don't serve breakfast food.
Living on cereal
As a form of material
Formulates the metaphor
Of typecast, typified, die-molded
People walking briskly
Through the portals of their lives.
Cerealized, serialized people --
Running down their mainsprings
Winding alarmclocks, kissing wives.

Make your breakfast, buddy.
Make it so it's good.
Make your breakfast, buddy.
Serve milk and egg for food.
Milk and egg adn coffee that's hotter,
Orange juice and 
Pancakes and 
Bread and hot butter.

1971

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