with bones or without?

I imagine the little fish in my soup squirming in my mouth, the crunch of their bones. I run back to the house. I look in my soup. One of the fish is gone. I fish the remaining one out – and drop it in a bowl of water. It’s little mouth is gasping. I saved it! – I think. No, I killed it – I think – it is alive but now partially cooked.

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Beans!

How could I not love beans when they remind me of The Who?

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And me, without a spoon . . .

Nauseating and fascinating at once.

What would have become of Mary Kate and Ashley if they stuck to rapping about food?

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Fat

A true story/poem. Our realities were so different – my tiny preferences had a dystopian twist to them for my then-husband. There were not many days after I said “I will” that did not find new odd buttons of despair – they were strange days indeed.

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