Vanilla
 
I tried a pound of troubadour 
and yodelled through the night. 
She wasn't very happy: 
I'd sung quite out of tune. 
I took that packet back, 
it was clearly rather off.
 
I bought a pound of lust 
labelled for "De Sade"; 
I turned my partner round 
and beat her with a rose. 
Great. The girlie got annoyed.
 
The next one that I bought? 
The milkman didn't care: 
he'd seen it all before. 
No milk for me this month.
 
I went back to the aisle 
and found another box 
so she could manage things, 
mixing an allusion 
with the misuse of a horse.
 
We've sampled all the styles; 
just one was very dull.
 
According to The Bigot 
it's this that I should like: 
I read it in the pages 
that ranted at a restaurant 
and got a chef arrested 
for chilli in a dish,
 
[Here, 
it instructs me, 
I should be 
disgusted.]
 
as if 
a man 
could choose
 
the food 
that he 
was born 
to eat.
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