Peanut butter
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When I tell my friends
my girlfriend and I are moving in together
only three months into our relationship,
they start telling me
A simple store bought cracker pack is all I really need and if I had the choice to, it’s all I’d ever eat.
It’s clear and noisy wrapper never fails to bring me joy like a puppy with a bone and a toddler with a toy.
Some of you may say I'm a nutter
My tongue is smothered with peanut butter
Like a newly-shined shoe, no area is left untouched
However, this coating should have stayed in my lunch
I still eat peanut butter as if it fulfills all the categories in
the nutritional pyramid. It can be found in the cupboards of each place
I hang up my jacket and step in. What’s convenient about
When would a PBJ taste better than caviar?
Rusty bronze compared to gold:
Two walls of bread just glued together
Versus delicate marbles of roe
I knew it when I first saw you,
Though we were much younger then,
That you were special, you were meant to find me,
That I loved you.
The beginning was not easy,
We were young and irresponsible,
i am a tortured dustball
sitting on the kitchen floor
polishing a bagel
with a veneer of peanut butter.
slim, competent,
crusty
and grumbling at Iggy the Fish -
First came the rumble
Then there came the pain.
Something said I had to eat before I go insane.
Now seeing how my hunger has led me to the kitchen,
I've mentally prepared for the sweetest exhibition.
