Concept: Mock‑Philosophy (Faux profundity applied to trivial topics)

5. Concept: Mock‑Philosophy (Faux profundity applied to trivial topics)

(The poem uses grand philosophical tone for something silly.)

POEM — “On the Ontology of the Sandwich”

Let us consider, with grave attention,

the sandwich—

that humble dialectic

between bread and desire.

Observe how the lettuce

strives toward transcendence,

how the tomato

accepts its fate

with stoic juiciness.

The baloney gloats in self importance,

thinking it the center,

as the sliced cheese melts into it

in admiration from habit.

In this layered architecture

we glimpse the eternal question:

What does it mean

to be held together

only by hunger and mayonnaise?

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