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The mixed plate lunch is quintessentially Hawaiian
It’s the result of people being curious and trying
their neighbors’ native delicacies around the 1880’s
when work on plantations brought folks from all nations
to sweat and toil a bunch and now we have the mixed plate lunch!

Two scoops of rice a scoop of macaroni
a place for appetites, not just yours only.
Hungry for power, control, position
not to mention loco moco or teriyaki chicken.
Hungry for variety, at least 2 kinds of piety.
And the one that starts all the fights --
the appetite to be right.

How does anyone ever agree at all
like is it decent to praise the royal genitals
should history be told with your hips
should women eat fruit that are phallic
Should sailors be denied their intercourse
Should America take over other nations by force
Should non-white males get the vote
Is American self government a joke

Hawaii didn’t mean to be a mixed plate
but the unfamiliar fishes had appetites to satiate
Everyone was so hungry, we all get so hungry

And what is more human than needing to eat?
Wanting a taste of that other guy’s unknown treat.
Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese and Korean
Add Filipinos and soon you’ll be seeing’
rice and macaroni on the same plate
hamburger with egg what do you know it tastes great

I guess no one needs roughage
Just more portuguese sausage
Everyday doesn’t have to be the same
Today chow fun, tomorrow chowmein

Kalua pig and lau lau to satiate you right now now
beef teri chicken katsu for you know you gots to

follow your hunger, your appetite,
On this plate there is no fight
Just have what you want and pile it on high
the plate is mixed for you to try

And it's safe on the plate.
nothing dire.. like the Hawiian population decreasing to 1/6 of what it was in 1778 because of respiratorry illness, measles and VD.

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The Bushwick Book Club Brooklyn, New York

We started in January 2009 playing songs written in response to Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions. We haven't stopped since. We've written & performed songs inspired by everything from "On The Origin of Species" to Dr. Seuss to Raymond Carver. There are BBCs popping up nationwide now. Bushwick Book Club Seattle started in 2010 & is run by Geoff Larson. Our nerdy dare-devilry knows no bounds. ... more

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