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The Seven Deadly Colors: Puce
from the series “The Seven Deadly Colors”;
a series of seven poems originally published in The Lamp-Post.

Bob Johnston

My weekly column runs in fifty papers
and my book Your Roving Gourmet
has sold two million copies.

My palate is a finely tuned instrument
that never makes a mistake on a vintage
or fails to identify the source of caviar.

When I enter a restaurant, the maître d’
snaps to attention, and the staff is alerted
to cater to my every whim.

I partake sparingly of every course,
cleansing my palate with sorbet
between courses. I sip each wine.

It is a good life, and I have no complaints.
But of late I find myself going forth, incognito,
to seek out dingy all-you-can-eat buffets.

Tonight it was a Mexican buffet.
I went through the line three times
for double helpings of tamales and enchiladas.

On my way home, I was suddenly stricken
with nausea, and vomited on the sidewalk
of the restaurant I had reviewed yesterday.

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