Haute Cuisine

Haute Cuisine The higher the price, The less lies on your plate The incredible anorexic carrots Trained to grow through straws thinner than pencils Have miniscule tufts of green Attached on top A miracle of horticultural engineering You could use them to dental floss A single new potato has been squashed Into the shape of a square Very Georges Braque Very cubist Très chic, an amuse bouche A small ball of indeterminate substances Lies on the plate like a Lilliputian bomb Set a little apart A knob of beef Like a plug of congested faeces Adds a brown note to this culinary composition And the pièce de résistance? A slender green squiggle Tiny as a caterpillar's piddle Pretending to be a sauce Or a trickle in the Kalahari desert Stop for a takeaway on the way home. You know you need to.