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orange juice
cereal
milk
of human kindness?
mothers?
what soothes us more in these times
what smoothes troubles,
warm milk before bed,
land of milk and honey
would we need more to ease
our loss?
bread
for breaking,
our daily,
slang of money,
for which we want to be winners,
but who are we if not sharing,
we well-bred, with bread-and-water,
shouldnt we break the bread of life
with other lives?
eggs
and on whose theory rely
chicken first or last?
a beginning to all, ovum,
but not all in one basket,
lest on our faces,
we who fertilize then crack the shell,
our Humpty-Dumpty world
.
meat
the chicken last again,
steer, hog,
our choices of the flesh,
consumed with conflict,
whats left after death,
fellow beings,
will we meet with them
in the next life?
and how will they prepare us?
we are all meat, in the end
vegetables
cheese
