last resorts

the top
shelf has all
the things you'll
never use.
cans of rice
and chicken,
strange stews.
boxes of dried
goods.
powdered this
and that.
pasta in open
boxes
stale beyond
repair.
it's the end
of the world
food,
last resorts
when
the snow is deep,
the floods
rise,
or the earth
opens to swallow
us whole.