Silly Poetry Friday 26

Bumped by Bacon!

Bet you're wondering what the heck I'm talking about, right? Ok, a little backstory. (Or should I say, backstory Bacon?) I was scheduled to do a little radio interview yesterday morning on the radio station CRN Digital Talk Radio, on the AM Show with Paul Stern and Erik Hines. But it didn't happen. I got bumped by one of their guests. Seems they were all having such a good time talking to their guest Kevin Bacon, that they plum forgot about little ol' me. So you see...I was bumped by Bacon! But that's ok. In fact, I think it's kinda cool. I've always liked Kevin Bacon, and now I've got my very own Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon experience!

So in honour of Mr. Bacon, I thought I would post a silly poem about...bacon!

I was searching the net and I found this interesting link. It's a silly dramatic performance of a poem about bacon. The poem was written by Joe Cappels, as an advertisement for McKenkie Bacon. The poem is performed by Charles Fuller, but in the recording he is known as "Sir Archibald Hensley". There's a bit of loud clapping before the performance, and the recording is a bit scratchy, but it's worth a listen. Here's the recording. I've tried to transcribe the poem as best I could, but I'm not sure about a couple of the words recited at the end:

I cast my eyes unto the sky

And saw a bacon back float by

This is I said as on it went

Mackenzie Bacon heaven sent

Never, never mortal eyes had seen

Bacon quite so fresh and lean

Never, never mortal tongue did savour

Such a sweet delicious flavour

So after all the foods forsaken

Replace it by Mackenzie Bacon!

Comments

[Steph]

Wow. You're now only one degree from Kevin Bacon. A very useful person to know!

A bacon link for you: http://www.notmartha.org/archives/2008/02/27/bacon-cups/

[bookfraud]

what a hilarious poem.

rag on canadians (and my canadian wife) as i do, i must admit that canucks do bacon far superior to us yanks. the first time i had a pea-meal bacon sandwich at st. lawrence market i thought i was going to die in gastronomic ecstasy.

ok, maybe that overstates things a bit, but canadian bacon is gooooooooooood.

it's an honor to be bumped by kevin bacon. are you aware about matt damon being bumped on jimmy kimmel's show?

[Patricia]

I didn't know about that bumping Matt Damon story, Bookfraud...I guess it just goes to show...you're nobody 'til somebody bumps you!

[Beth]

That was crazy! Loved the deep voice, accent and music!
Hey, next time you're doing an interview, let me know. I want to listen (even if you get "bumped").

[Kisane]

If I had to be bumped by anyone, Kevin Bacon would be one of my top 10. I love bacon (the food) - the smell of frying bacon especially. Yummy!!

[heather (errantdreams)]

Awww, sad to be bumped, but yeah, at least it was by Kevin Bacon!

[cipriano]

Hey Pattycakes, that is awesome, to be bumped by His Royal Bacon-ness.
And now I will tell you something that you will NOT believe.
But I don't care. I don't care that you already do not believe me.
Truly, it is unexplainable.
At work today I had the ramblings of a poem going through my head.... snippets. It happens often. The thing did not germinate to fruition though... I abandoned the thread of thought. But, it was ABOUT BACON.
Not the actor.
But the breakfast stuff. Honestly, I nearly wrote a poem today about bacon. And then I read this posting and well.... weirdness!

[Dick Cappels]

My dad won an award for that poem!

[Patricia]

He did? How wonderful. And I can understand why. It's truly a delightful poem! I hope you don't mind me sharing it a bit more in the blogosphere...