boiled eggs

a dozen eggs
should do. boiled
hard
over the flame
in a deep pot of water.
let them cool.
take the cracked ones
out. strip
the splintered shells, salt
and pepper those,
eat them warm.
then dip
in small pools of color
the ones that made
it through,
make them
your own with stripes
and tones,
stickers
and what not.
give matisse or Picasso
a lesson or two.
keep the ones you like,
or give them to someone
else.