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Out to Lunch

My sandwich sits in cellophaned silence.

A caged morsel:

Man’s inhumanity to ham.

Its window displays a lip-smack

of full filling fat.

A ‘snack’ –

so dismissive a word:

I’ve shared smaller portions.

Then the cautions:

SELL BY:

DISPLAY BY:

EAT BY:

(DIGEST BY?)

I think I

will have a beer instead.

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Feb 4, 2010
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