Perhaps a Pretzel?

Another day, another reason to celebrate! Today is National Pretzel Day! Here's a little poem for that most wonderful of breads.

I’m a proud descendent of a line that’s quite Bavarian

I’m really quite suburban though my forebears were agrarian

And in my culture there’s a snack that’s quite utilitarian

It’s salty and it’s bready and it’s even vegetarian

Of course I speak of pretzels, they’re a snack that’s nonsectarian

They’re loved by creatures great and small, from mammoth to planarian

And every kind of person, loud buffoon or soft librarian

Republican or Democrat or even Libertarian

Come one, come all, come short, come tall and sound a call that’s clarion 

Come celebrate the pretzel, bourgeoisie or proletarian

Perhaps you’ll write an opera that’s all epic and wagnerian

(But if you use my mustard up I’ll likely go barbarian!)