Chocolate

Choc'late on some pretzels, on some coffee beans as well –

Next the French will put it on an innocent snail shell.

There's choc'late fountains spouting at a wedding somewhere now;

Choc'late covered bacon is a silk purse from a sow.

Get a choc'late necktie on next Father's Day – why not?

Letterman is bound to have some chocolate-covered snot.

Baptize ev'ry glutton in a pool of choc'late goo.

Feed it to the animals at ev'ry local zoo.

The hoity-toity eateries serve choc'late by the gram;

Making off like bandits with this gustatory scam.

The only ones not able some prosperity to boast

Are peasants who produce it on the fragrant Ivory coast.