Cardboard Dinner Night Owl
Warming hands
over the oven, staring at resistance. Ice crystals poking from
pepperonis - cheese glazed with frost. Compelled to sit.
Wood flavored laminate, peeling linoleum, an opaque reflection looking
through, watching. Wait. Yellowed fluorescent hums of moths
clumsily darting by ears and dense hood lights. Cold floor, like
spring mornings in the truck. Sitting in the numb; like a static
giving device. Resistance glows - stares back. Willed to
stare back. The crust is golden and beautiful.
Waiting. Quiet and the humming engine. Defrosting and foggy
breathing. Through the window, heat waves. Pepperoni
harbored grease pools in orange. Resistance. Done and
ready.
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