THE BUFFET BREAKFAST 😋😎
We’ve all had our share of buffet breakfasts
Hotel guests get it free
Visitors, for a modest fee
You’re ushered into
an unabashed wonderland
of sheer gluttony
*
Unhindered access to
every conceivable goodie
temporarily, but un-arbitrarily
granted to thee
*
And your time starts now
*
Luscious rows of cold cuts
Supple racks of sushi
Seductive mounds of iceberg
Forests of broccoli
Lay there in aromatic splendour
And beckon enticingly
*
The extravaganza unleashes
a sleeping giant
in a gastronomic jiffy
Stripping your usual propensity
to count each calorie
*
You morph asudden
to an absolute glutton,
Off on a wild ‘eat-like-
there’s-no-tomorrow’ spree
– a far cry from the suave,
discerning gourmand
your ‘pre-buffet’ avatar used to be
*
Keeping no holds barred
Giving all stops a pull
The buffet’s now a China shop
And you? A famished bull
*
Picking everything
you confront,
Piling all that you see
Your plate turns into
a gooey version
of the Caspian Sea
*
Snooty salmons
and haughty cheese
Rub shoulders
with. lowly peas
Donuts, meat sauce
share conjugal bliss
Secularism sandwiched
in zero prejudice
*
Chocolate pudding
finds home
on the salad bar,
Butter chicken tangoes
with aam ka achaar
*
Crunchy egg rolls
buried under
meat ball debris
You pig on … undeterred,
in karmic glee
*
Dumping table manners
Divorcing social finesse
Doped on carb comfort
– orgies of excess
*
The orgy is finally over
Gone the tantalising aroma
You now feel like a slob
Your tummy is in coma
*
In a bid to out-eat
the spent of money
You’ve flung your metabolism
in a goo of gluttony
*
Your tummy screams
with vocal cords of a bovine
Cramping on
a richter scale 7–9
*
Doomed to the tyranny
of belly blockade
Your holiday slips by
sipping antacids, lemonade
*
Never ever again
you firmly resolve
… cursing. your
current colonic jeopardy
And then you go
on another holiday
And then another buffet breakfast
happens to thee
– Puja Bhakoo
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