<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392930" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ballade Of The Breakfast Table</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the Festal Board, as the papers say,<br> Groans 'neath the weight of a lot to eat,<br>At breakfast, Fruhstuck or dejeuner,<br> (As a bard tri-lingual I'm rather neat) <br> At breakfast, then, if I may repeat,<br>This is what gets me into a huff,<br> This is a query I cannot beat:<br>Why don't they ever have spoons enough? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I've broken my fast with the grave and gay,<br> With hoi polloi and with the elite; <br>I've been all over the U. S. A.<br> From Dorchester Crossing to Kearney Street.<br> But aye when I sit in the morning seat<br>Comes to my notice the self-same bluff,<br> Plenty of food, but in this they cheat:<br>Why don't they ever have spoons enough? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Take it at breakfast, only to-day:<br> This was the layout, fresh and sweet:<br>Canteloupe, sweet as the new-mown hay; [Footnote: And about as edible.]<br> Cereal-one of the brands[Footnote: To advertisers: This space for sale.]<br> of wheat; <br> Soft-boiled eggs (we've cut out the meat) :<br>Coffee (a claro-manila-buff) :<br> Napery, china, and glasses complete-<br>Why don't they ever have spoons enough? </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>L'ENVOI</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Autocratesses, forgive my heat,<br> But isn't it time to change that stuff? <br>Small is the benison I entreat-<br> Why don't they ever have spoons enough?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Franklin+P.+Adams">Franklin P. Adams</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392930" data-title="Ballade Of The Breakfast Table de Franklin P. Adams" data-description="When the Festal Board, as the papers say, Groans 'neath the weight of a lot to eat, At breakfast, Fruhstuck or dejeuner, (As a bard tri-lingual I'm rather neat) At breakfast, then, if I may repeat, This is what gets me into a huff, This is a ..."></div> </div> </div>

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