The Best Things in Life Are Nasty
The best things in life are nasty
For the hungering chicks in the nest
Imagination of taste now revolts me
Tender feeding of child at breast
The best things in life are nasty
It’s why I love eating blue cheese
And lingering rot of noble botrytis
Is why we give grapes the disease
It is why we harvest the mussels
And adore the caviar’s brine
We endure pain of shucking oysters
So upon the living we dine
The best things in life are nasty
The bacon beasts roll in the mud
To get to that tender filet mignon
One is practically swimming in blood
I shall munch upon the fungus
And the products of the yeast
Every kind of cheese starts in
The best things in life are nasty
And a pole that shoots from prodding
In a sweaty fumbling romp
The joy of making children
The thrill of something naughty
And the chance of getting caught
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