In A Sausage Roll

I represent the essence of you Brits

No less than Attenborough, Princess Di

And Shakespeare’s waxworks: culinary wits

Say what you eat is who you are, so I

Am all you Brits in spades. You gobble me

Up every day, a million times, in snacks—

Spiced sausages in pastry, apt to be

As flaky as your nature. Who would wax

Greggs sausage rolls for cultural delight

Except a Brit? Who else would mount a plaque

Revering me, upon a plinth, and write

On it that I’m a hero of a snack

Lunch? Who, if not a Brit? … Your nation’s soul

Loves British culture in a sausage roll!

 

Mike Mesterton-Gibbons is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Florida State University who has returned to live in his native England. His acrostic sonnets have appeared in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Better Than Starbucks, The Creativity Webzine, Current Conservation, the Ekphrastic Review, Grand Little Things, Light, Lighten Up Online, MONO, the New Verse News, Oddball Magazine, Rat’s Ass Review, the Satirist, the Washington Post and WestWard Quarterly. The poem was prompted by the BBC story, “‘Iconic’ sausage roll to star at Madame Tussauds.”