Les bliancs Lapîns!

[ieune]

Go to bed with a cheese and pickle sandwich
--it is life enhancing.
It doesn't chat you up
--you have to make it.

A cheese and pickle sandwich
is never disappointing.
You don't lie there thinking:
Am I too fat?
Too insecure?
Too fertile?

Your thoughts are clear
--your choices are simple:
to cut it in half,
or not to cut it in half.
How thin to slice the cheese,
and where to place the pickle.

From a cheese and pickle sandwich
you do not expect flowers,
poems, words of love and acts of adoration.
You expect what you get
--cheese ... and pickle.

You want, you eat,
and afterwards -- you have eaten.
No lying awake resentful
listening to it snore.

Safe snacks.
It comes
recommended.

~Mandy Poe