Experimental Poetry: December 2008 Edition, Volume III

UNTITLED

12/30/08

We are out of food
That we want to eat
Though if our favorite food was canned green beans
We’d be in for a treat

And if you like lettuce and tomato sandwiches
You are in luck
Because we ate all the cheese and turkey some other time
Before today

We could have spaghetti
If the noodles weren’t wheat
(Mike “would rather starve”)
We could have a salad
If I knew how to prepare a beet
We could have enchiladas
If we had some more cheese
We couldn’t even have enchiladas
Because we don’t have sour cream
(Mike only likes enchiladas if we have sour cream)

As I was thinking up this
Mike brought me a toasted tomato sandwich
It was delicious
See he’s a good man
(Was there even a question? I thought this was about food.)