?What do you think

Said the tofu to the side dish of creamed corn.

?Wouldn't it be weird if we were chickening again
?If we were actually the main course and not pretending to be

the step to the next blank slate of surveys and
half forgotten fuel and lumber
cut down to
build this
brick oven

(don't name it)

The dinner table is where it sits
With fork and knife in hand
napkin across lap
and eyes fixed
to dinnerware

Perhaps there's more to share.

Pale multi-collars
of blank canvases
stretch like a poem across the plate
outstretched
and hint of
nakedness

Settle that caress close to the
cubed
carved
cleaved close
baked fat free
absurdity

Absurd to leave
unless, as they say

/we've eaten everything up/
/eagerly/