It starts as an after school snack
you share a bag with your brothers.
But things change as you grow,
soon you're eating a whole bag.
Soon its not just a snack
but a meal.
Its not long before you're eating
the kernels too.
At first you try to chew them,
but soon its better to just swallow them whole.
Then you're using your thumbnail
to scrape the butter off of the bag.
It takes forty five minutes,
but you eat all of it.
That doesn't last long before
you're ripping up the bag
and licking the buttery insides.
From there its a slippery *****
and before you know it you're chewing
strips of the buttery bag like gum.
Then one day you do it.
You swallow,
and its not great but its not so bad.
So that's your breakfast from now on,
a bag of popcorn.