Thursday, May 6, 2021

Pleased with pistachios

 he sits eating tree oysters

remembering the time

his mother would fill

a small glass vendor 

with a black cast iron leg

and red jacket and cap

from his first memories

she would always choose

the same hard tan beaks

with their jade green innards

to top off the glass tank

not very appealing to

his delinquent mind and wants

he much rather had had 

chocolate covered in vibrant

thin candy shells or the

same vibrancy in gumballs

but alas the mechanical thing

was diminished in his mind

due to these things he snacks on

these things that fill his break

with their tiny snaps of their jaws

revealing the gems within

though empty with some

leaving him feeling cheated

but still pleased with pistachios




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