Tender fire
Loving, grand, 
Witless fables—
Vacuous 
S o u n d s

                    Damn his hunger
                    For fast food
                    Callow words
                    And easy 
                    D e a l i n g s

When all I fancied
Was slow-cooked,
Spicy lines, 
And complex 
M e a n i n g s !

*

Wide, wide, windows,
Lavish bloom,
Pompous, charming,
Prosaic,
B l a n d

                    Damn his hunger
                    For fast food
                    Callow words
                    And easy 
                    D e a l i n g s

When all I fancied
Was slow-cooked,
Spicy lines, 
And complex 
M e a n i n g s !

*

Tender fire
Loving, grand,
Witless fables—
Vacuous 
S o u n d

                    While I did…cherish?
                    Relish! Stand! 
                    By tender fire, 
                    Prosaic,
                    G r a n d

O near missteps
On fast-burned lights,
This doomed, doomed,
Pyre of fast
D e l i g h t s