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A video of a poetic love letter to Whataburger is going viral. 

Houston poet Amir Safi recently performed 鈥極de to Whataburger鈥� at the Texas Grand Slam Poetry Festival. 鈥淥h Whataburger,鈥� he says. 鈥淭exas-born titan, A-frame shelter, pilgrimage for the south. Church of meat, grease and longer waits. Perfectly-salted pulpit for the hungry. We are knelt before you in drive-through, in car seat or strangely-shaped table that consists of half-booth, half chairs.  We have come to receive your honey butter chicken blessings.鈥�

he鈥檚 been trying to push himself 鈥渢o write about everyday things we often overlook.鈥� 鈥淪ometimes the everyday things are life-changing,鈥� he said.

You鈥檝e gotta watch the video:

[We know you love Whataburger -- what else do you love about Texas?]

Whataburger loves it!

Whataburger loves 'Ode to Whataburger' -- of course! -- and sent out this tweet:

Everybody loves it!

And here's more social media love:

More about Safi

Safi about his viral poem.

Safi hosts One day, there was a food-themed open mic. Safi thought: 鈥淲hat food do I want to write about?鈥�

鈥淣aturally, Whataburger came to mind,鈥� Safi says. 鈥淎nd I just start to write 鈥榃hat are all the things I like about Whataburger?鈥� and then this poem came to fruition out of that.鈥�

Safi made the leap from biology to poetry.

鈥淏iology in its essence is the study of life,鈥� 鈥淲hat can be more poetic then discovering how life works? I did study biology. It was a passion. I also had Iranian parents, who pushed met toward the sciences and the maths.鈥�

Video: Watch Safi read 'Brown Boy. White House'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr0IVQ4b9TE

Note: We've corrected some of the words in the Whataburger poem.