Thursday, September 10, 2020

war rations

how can there be no food
inside
the ice box.

i go shopping five times a week.

and yet.
three eggs remain.

three stripes of bacon curled
in fatty
fear
of being fried.

brown lettuce.
sixteen bottles of salad
dressing.

an apple, gone soft,
shrunken grapes
and a navel orange
gone green
on one side.

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