Butterrr

I churned and I churned and I churned

Churned delight laden milk to joy lacking

Cream. Churned cream lacking joy to

Horrible butter. Milk straight from the teat

I manhandled to cream. Spent hours and

Hours made cream ever more sour

Packed with sad fatty labor

I churned rancid butter

Labored butter, O Labored butter

You’ve churned me foreign to my other

I twist and turn—rancid—to your spell

You’ve worn me down churned me to hell

Great heat you’ve brought sweat to my

furrowed brow,

Drained me—drip by drip slowly—how

I escaped your greasy call

—But you have energy surplus to tell

Freed now somehow from your fatal claws

I insouciantly “churn” without a cause

Won salt sourced from earth or sea below

Sprinkled sweetens flavor you now bestow

Joy and love to the world (in healthy doses)

Farewell farewell—damned osteoarthrosis

Peanut butter Peanut butter

Peanut butterr

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Peanut butterrrr