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Comfort Food

                              

Sunday afternoon, in quest of my youth's beloved comfort food,

Its heavenly manna made flesh,

I took an out-of-the-way trip to a far-distant grocery store,

 

Where I sold my soul, for a twin forty-ounce pack

Of Jif creamy peanut butter

And a loaf of "Soft, Delicious, Nutritious" Wonder Classic White.

 

Then I returned to my birth cave, with plenty of red meat

In the form of enriched bread and a saturated-fat-laden spread —

Edibles to keep me alive, throughout the evening.

 

But when I bit into the first of myriad scrumptious sandwiches,

I saw seven dwarfs dead on my bedroom floor.

Each had choked on a Jif-coated slice of poison apple.

 

That night, like a savage in his rank den,

I ravaged my creamy peanut butter and fell into a stupor,

Dreaming Snow White would arouse the boy in me, with a kiss.

                                         

 

 

 

       

 

 

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