people across the street are starving

my mother

used to force the baked

beans

and hot dogs into

us with guilt.

people in 

India

are starving. you're lucky

to have food,

now finish your dish,

or no tv tonight.

across the street, my friend's

mother would

tell her son,

finish your lobster

and rib eye steak, you're

lucky

you don't live across the street,

eating baked

beans everynight.