Big Mac
That alchemy turns lead to gold may be more than lore,
or so says Modern Physics*, but MacDonald’s does much more
by making gold and silver out of snack bar food,
feeding Big Macs, shakes and fries to a hungry brood.
Drunk fools go there for coffee, lonely hearts go to make friends.
Why we greet the golden arches more or less depends
on what we feel we’re lacking. Sometimes, company will do.
Or you may need a hamburger, in fact you may need two.
After you have plowed your furrows, changing clods to dirt,
wipe the soil from your hands and change your soiled shirt
and head out to McDonald’s. You’ll never rue the day
when you order Macs and fries and tuck them all away.
You may have flunked your physics test, my dear, but never mind.
The golden arches provides comfort of the tastebud kind.
*“What is Alchemy? – Live Science https://www.livescience.com › 39314-alchemy Mar 24, 2016 — Alchemy is the ancient practice of trying to turn lead into gold. Modern physics equipment may finally make that quest a reality.”
Wordle prompts for The Sunday Whirl: 552 : sometimes never snack bar drunk fools gold silver alchemy physics dirt clod. Image by Amirali Mirhashemian on Unsplash.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Judy, your powerful sentence leaped to my eyes:
“Why we greet the golden arches more or less depends on what we feel we’re lacking” – amazing truth. Brava!
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Thanks, Suzette.
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How you managed to combine all these prompts into a poem is a miracle to me.
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Me too, Dolly. I just let my inner scribbler go.
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Your inner scribbler is doing very well.
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Ahh – Truer words were never spoken to this 63 year old McDonald’s addict. Wonderfully written and highly enjoyable. Now, I’m off to McDonald’s to have some lunch this day …. 🙏
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No McDonald’s in my part of Mexico. Just Carl Jr.’s and Burger King–but 50 miles away or more.
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I remember Carl Jr.’s – unfortunately I remember Burger King as well. MD’s still ranks #1 with me! 😁
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Si. It’s hard to beat a Big Mac, but the Carl’s Jr Western Cheesburger is pretty good, too.
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Now I want a hamburger and it’s only 10 am here! LOL
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I am an enabler….
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LOL ❤️
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