NOT Alice’s Restaurant
have you ever been to a restaurant where the patrons
are hungry for more than just food? they may want to
eat you and do with their filmy eyes
most well past their prime longing for your now grubby
youth your clutching grasp on perfection your sparklyshoes
they long too for their young husbands
their bodies verve+densely sexual they covet your (still)
freedoms to jump in your car and go! what does it feel like
to drive to go to the opera? to prance? asked Ellen
she who died beside her starving cat but seriously just don’t
go there anymore even though their sprinkle cookie takes you
back to Marla Gold’s kitchen
where her mother Dora serves day-olds from her rich bros
bakery and her new step-dad (possibly a pervert) lurks
what do you mean he made you keep the bedroom door open?!
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my own mother’s response to us 12 year old’s having to undress
with the door wide open (London Ontario circa 1969)
Winter 2024 ..go for the bratwürst at Ikea better..
songanddancegirl 