Monday, August 14, 2017

Breaking Fast

It’s a conversation killer
muesli for breakfast

there is no room for words
between the oats, seeds, fruit,
nuts and chaff,

so we glare at each other
like careworn cattle
masticating miserably.

How different the bacon sandwich
or the dripping fried egg bap,
those are happy breakfasts
impossible not to gossip
through the dribbling ketchup.

No, muesli spells melancholia
give it a wide berth.


© Graham Sherwood 08/2017

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