Sunday, February 5, 2023

chicken again?

when the child
at the dinner table, clutching
fork and knife
complains,
what chicken again?
you tell him
the story about how you
boiled your shoes
once to make soup,
adding a carrot
and turnip
that you grew
in the back yard,
of course he doesn't believe
you, but then
eats his chicken dinner,
quietly,
and so do you.

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