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The Office Fridge

Tune: The Red Flag (O Tannenbaum, O Christmas Tree)

The office fridge is full of slime,
No-one has cleaned it in our time,
The shelves a feast of green and grey –
And what’s that lurking in the tray?

Chorus:
    So raise the putrid morsel high
        To throw it out, or eat and die?
        Though gourmets flinch and drinkers sneer,
        We’ll use our fridge for more than beer.

A squelchy bag of nameless gunk,
A hardened roll falls with a clunk.
A long-lost lunch, its fate is plain,
Let mankind’s loss be compost’s gain.

Chorus

There is milk but no-one’s keen –
Fluorescent pink and lurid green.
A blackened lump, right up the back,
Provides a salmonella snack.

Chorus

The ice amid the freezer’s ooze
Is broken glass that once held booze.
A reaching hand, one finger less
The final colour in the mess.

Chorus

 Copyright © D.W. Walker, 1999


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