Bread-Alex Day

[ti:Bread] [ar:Alex Day] [al:Epigrams and Interludes] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.01]Bread (面包) - Alex Day [00:00.00]Her name was Flora Spread and she lived on Hovis Hill [00:04.08]Overlooking baker town from the window of her flour mill [00:08.08]The bright lights of the city fueled her longing to create [00:11.51]With the innovative bakers with whom she knew she could relate [00:15.25]She saw the cakes they cooked and the muffins that they made [00:19.00]But she kept on beating her bread all the while feeling betrayed [00:22.62]That her mother left her in this mess of yeast flour and dough [00:26.42]She must taste inspiration and stop chewing the bread of woe [00:33.80] [00:40.35]Down in baker town lived Victoria Sponge [00:43.72]But her cakes weren't selling so she knew that it was time to take a plunge [00:47.20]Into the new and see things from a brand new view [00:51.97]And yes young miss Flora I am talking to you [00:55.21]Will you come down that hill of yours and work here in my shop [00:58.33] [00:59.38]We might have to bake until the ovens pop [01:02.21]But I need your creative eye [01:04.88] [01:05.88]With my wisdom and your innovation [01:10.30]Together we can bake the perfect success pie [01:17.98] [01:19.23]Success pie [01:22.79]Success pie [01:26.10] [01:30.78]Bread [01:32.53]Bread [01:34.08] [01:40.20]After just one week in that shop Flora's business was booming [01:44.19]Her creativity blooming and her customers consuming [01:47.81]But looming on the horizon lay a rising problem [01:51.93]People couldn't stop eating and there was nothing that could stop them [01:55.99]What was once a people of pretty balanced diets [01:58.98]Baker town without it's bread was revolution without riots [02:02.97]Flora closed her shop down but she knew it was too late [02:06.90]And soon enough the population of the town was overweight [02:13.58] [02:16.01]Overweight [02:18.63]Overweight [02:28.43]Bread [02:29.02]Bread [02:30.27] [02:39.44]And so the very next day [02:42.06]Flora went back to her mill and opened up her bread shop [02:46.89]But it seemed to Flora's dismay that no one wanted her bread [02:52.88]And she was left alone up on the hill top [02:57.94]Victoria sponge kept on baking [03:03.18]With recipes she stole from floras notes [03:08.36]And Flora's heart kept on breaking [03:12.85]As the cakes continued rising and the bread became toast