Takeout

Food delivery is proving to be a thorny, expensive and crucial puzzle for restaurants, grocers and investors. Billions of dollars have been spent in a quest to build services that reliably move fresh food from one place to another, yet many in the business wonder if they will ever get the economics right. Most delivery orders remain unprofitable.
WSJ

I sit in front of pantry filled

with good food, both plain and frilled.

But I'm lazy, so I dial

for some roasted crocodile.

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It's delivered pdq --

and it's flavored barbecue.

And there's edamame beans

with a salad of fresh greens.

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Emperors of ancient Rome

don't eat like I do at home.

Happy, on La Croix I sip

knowing I don't have to tip.

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But when restaurants cease to be

cuz of takeout bankruptcy

I will starve within my house

all for lack of hot lobscouse.