Eileen Tabios
Jeopardy's Secret Ingredients
? Afterwards, you must temper it with a widow’s peak.
? Then you lasso the whelp’s left ear if you can. If not, freeze the mutt in a vat of milk.
? Concurrently, you cannot privilege the chaff.
? Next, store it for 45 days in a dim, cool cupboard to force the sun’s rise.
? Don’t forget to exhale as you stain the cuffs with the juice of pressed alabaster.
? After two-thirds are set aside for slum tenants, you can attack the olives with sugar.
? Never allow the ingredients to collude despite their shared bowl carved from an endangered species of mahogany.
? The secret is to deliberately forget what I omitted when its slip of paper dropped through the hole in my red velvet pocket.
Can you match the question with its answer?
Question
1) Who betrayed the butler with mother-of-pearl cufflinks?
2) What sets milk aflame?
3) Where did the burglar hide the white-on-white painting?
4) How will you make me Sublime!?
5) Why did the King choose the porcupine?
6) When will you concede to my blindfold?
Answer
A) atolls in the South Pacific
B) pastilles de leche
C) bon mot
D) “pootietang”
E) being attached as only an orgasm-less woman can: with a vengeance (e.g. Simone de Beavoir to Sartre)
F) silk hems
APOLOGIES to Eileen for having to change the form of "Can you match the question with its answer?". I know how important the physical form is especially in this kind of poem, but our Blogger template simply does not accept tabulation, indentation, or table formats. Or I just don't know how to do it. The poem as posted, not as the author intended it, is solely the blogger-editor's responsibility. —MLK
