Friday, January 8, 2021

ham and cabbage

we'd smell
cabbage boiling as we
came
off the street

with our clothes dirty.
our faces
smudged.

the bat and ball, the glove
thrown into
the closet by
the door.

we'd look at each other
and whisper

oh no. not again.
we'd sigh and say at least
it's

not pea soup once more.

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