Spare Ribs

Spare Ribs

For  your  consideration,

an   elevator  moving sideways 

it’s the full service   of Willy Wonka  at self-serve prices

we appreciate euro collision and think

I could do this   forever!

Pickin’ grapes and   thinkin’ of myself

and        grapevine fingers

I could do this    forever!

An  excess of jam,  now,  I’ve seen the sugar

boiling   over the burner, eight cups

My jaw aches,  for  my dental practitioner 

for  the forever separation

for  the  years   between   us  and 

the  atriums   progressing  through my jowl

We meet  and chat

We meet   and I speak

There isn’t a  clear-cut direction

for  a matter  of   difference in taste

there’s  fried chicken  on delivery  before

the grease  has been cleaned from the  sofa

and   it’s mostly blameless

mostly 

The  both of us   cleaning  dog piss 

from   our friend’s  rolled canvas

Your friend’s   rolled canvas

We both wish  we had   better taste 

or   less altogether for 

oily comparison  is  killing the dog  or

the house  or  delivery person without snow tires

and  that’s not anyone’s fault   but  yours

my taste veers  as   the dog’s pissin’  and  grease’s leakin’

and   maybe   it is my fault   for holding  so  still

so still  and   achy and   very scared 

of the  dentist

and   maybe  of you

or   it’s a slew of cavities  and  regret colliding 

smashing glass  and  there’s  daybreak 

Moving  up,   up

I   speak 

and   I speak  again

I could do this   forever!

Art ;

Jack Breakfast, 2020

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