Hour 22- Cheese Pizza

I will take a pizza.

Just cheese please.

Maybe pepperoni.

No, pepperoni.

I get heartburn.

Bacon. Bacon and Pineapple.

NO mushrooms. I hate mushrooms.

Just Bacon and Pineapple and cheese please.

I know it isn’t a real Hawaiian pizza.

But technically Hawaiian Pizza isn’t Hawaiian.

I love cheese pizza though. Maybe half and half

Half cheese, half bacon and pineapple.

No extra cheese.

Extra cheese gets weird.

It throws the sauce, crust, cheese, topping ratio off.

I know what I am talking about.

I do. I have made hundreds of thousands of pizzas.

No that isn’t hyperbole.

I worked in pizza places most of my adult life.

You know what, never mind.

Just make me a cheese pizza.

With extra sauce. but not too much.

Light extra sauce.

Yes that’s a thing.

I don’t want my cheese to swim off the pizza.

It’s simple really.

If you want, I can make it myself.

I know I don’t work here, yet.

Then make me a cheese pizza.

A little extra sauce.

Cook it just a bit longer.

No, not well done.

Just cooked a bit longer.

If you can’t do it, find me someone who can.

It’s Pizza. Very easy to make.

I have made hundreds of thousands of them.

No, it isn’t hyperbole.

How many have you made?

 

 

Hour 22 image prompt – Silence Silencio

On the corner late at night

I listen and I hear it.

Purr and grimble

Hiss and fight

And I’d rather not come near it.

But I prefer this to silence

silencio

A verb, request, a noun

Silence Silencio

Adjective and found

To be most dangerous when you’ve pets

Or even toddlers with rudeness I bet

Hour Twenty-two: Planting a Pizza Garden

They started with seedlings:

Tomatoes, onions, basil, oregano

As these were growing

They placed two hula hoops

In the sunniest spot on the raised bed

And drew lines for each sprout

They watered and weeded and waited

For the harvest

So they could savor a pizza

Crafted with their labor

Produce from their garden

 

Hour 22 – Pizza

Pizza

P is for the painful way you burn my mouth
I is for incredibly, incredibly hot
Z is for a zillion degrees, the temperature of this pizza
Z is for zombification. From the too hot pizza. It could happen.
A is for AAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!

(Maybe next time I should let it cool down for a bit.)

#Prompt 22 – 2023

Healthy Eating … Scottish Style

Deep fried pizza
Frozen
Oven ready
Quarter or half portions
Plunged into hot fish oil until crispy
Pizza supper …
Just add salty chips
Brown sauce and vinegar
A Crunch supper …
Add batter
A unique flavour
A dubious nutritional profile all its own
A heart attacks pre-served and ready to go

Running

Running from the truth
Because it hurts
Please just choose
To put yourself first
Hiding from the lies
The damage is done
My heart cries
We’re not having fun
Back and forth
Lacking stability
We are worth
The possibility
No sparing feelings
No actions from spite
Just new beginnings
Do what feels right
Look into yourself
Listen as the soul sings
Ask for help
But no running

23~14

my ———– feels dead

never full of life

but ——- me to ———

So. Much. ———–!

practically ————me

leaving me ——– like

i ——– 

i ———- ——– …

Hour Twenty-Two: Pizza

what has made the pizza
a global favorite?

surely not the taste
i mean, there are sandwiches
the grilled kind, you know
but why is a pizza so different

i think it is in the name
a flat pie, pee-t-zaa
that’s what it means

so enjoy your pizza, folks
while i go chomp on mine

Hour 3 Because I somehow Missed Posting This One

Oh my god I almost missed posting this poem!! I’m glad I decided to double check what I have posted. And then checked that against my Google doc. Thank goodness I caught that mistake!

 

Hour 3

 

Every library I have ever been in

Has held more love than any other holy place

Each book asking to be cared about

And each story carrying love

Each story time filled with new love of words

And each bag filled with love on the way out

Countdown

I’m scraping the bottom of the barrel here,

wanting for words that dance out of my grasp

and thoughts that flutter away with a mocking smile.

Every molecule within me screeches for sleep,

despite being so close

(Hour 22)