Holly Jahangiri's blog

Carnivorous

A Night Out at Fogo de Chão
(The following poem is meant to be humorous, awful, the sort of thing sane writers shove under the crumpled wads of worthier efforts stashed in the circular file - it is not intended to be great "litrahchure," so please do not feel obligated to point out to me that "it sucks.")

Raging, ravenous need to tear
Great hunks of meat from proffered skewers
While sipping a mojito: rum, crushed mint, fresh lime.

Take a picture of this:
Chewing, swallowing - need to breathe?
Flip the coaster, green to red, hold up a hand - STOP!

Not a flattering photo.
A Brazilian steak house? No place
for pinch-faced vegetarians, Hindus, or members of PETA.

Non, je regrette rien...
Except, maybe, the salad bar. Superfluous
It seems, now. Greens, rice, pickled things, quail eggs, soup...

Pre-filler filler-upper.
Never say "diet" at Fogo de Chão;
it has the word "die" in it. "Die" starts with "d" and marks an end,

As does "dessert."
Oh, Holy Mother of Pearl  -
They serve dessert here, too?

5 word challenge: obsequious, striation, tyro, eleemosynary, prophylaxis

catness has passed me the baton so today it's my turn to pick the 5 words!

Words: obsequious, striation, tyro, eleemosynary, prophylaxis

The rules (for the potential new players):

This is how it works: you get 5 words and with these 5 words you have to write an entry. The words might or might not be related. You decide how to combine them, and how long your entry will be. You tag your entry with 5wordchallenge
and whatever other tags you like. Finally, you put the words in bold. In one week the challenge will be passed on to someone that participated in this one, by the person who hosts this week's challenge.