My Sausage Tree

My Sausage Tree

Our house went vegetarian,
now every meal’s meat-free.
So it’s handy my allotment has
a full-grown sausage tree.

Every time I go there
(past the butcher’s shop),
I pick from off its branches
the latest sausage crop.

The kids say they’re delicious,
better than beef or pork.
They ask me how I grow them, but
my mouth’s too full to talk.

Now, sausages can get boring,
which makes me want to rush
off to my allotment
to plant a bacon bush.