What's for Dinner

First you catch a wild bat
With honey in a funny hat
And pound it flat with your best bat –
This is called hors d'oeuvres

For soup you get, unless you're fickle
Rust from a green bicycle --
Stir it with a jar of pickle
And feed it to the worms

While in mourning for the bat
You feed the salad to the cat
The cat throws up inside the hat --
And we'll just skip that course

It's time to put a fish course on –
First you free the giant prawns
"Back to the sea where you belong!"
You shout, though you are hungry

For vegetables, a million peas
Though to peas I've allergies
They will make me wheeze and sneeze
And you'll have peas with snot

Meat course! Well, you catch a rabbit
Then you throw a mallet at it
Or you could skin it with a – what's that?
Yes, let's have desert!

First you overturn the flan
Then you turn the blowtorch on
And once the firemen are gone
We can have mac and cheese

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Yes, this is an expansion of "Recipes." I used my lunch hour well. Um, kinda.

No, I'm not going to write a cookbook in verse.