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Monday, February 20, 2012

Refrigerator Flood

Refrigerator Flood

Mija, Mijo, Meatloaf, My Little Home Slice


End of the world soup, expired.

Broken meth pipe, once air freshener.

Frozen wedding cake, it's my daughter's.

Grapefruit juice frozen, from old trees

Quinoa from Costco, bought for 2012

Cocoa Krispies from the Dollar Store

Your daughter's Cup of Soup, Shrimp.

Save the Desert flyers. Faded now.

man and wife statuette shrink wrapped

Syringes for liquid B12 prescriptions, mine.

Tapatio Hot Sauce for carne asada.

Wild Salmon suffering from freezer burn

Four dozen corn tortillas, string cheese

Two cans of Coca Cola, no more egg whites,

Expired chilis in Trader Joe's cans.

End of the world vegetable seeds.

Enough expired food for the apocalypse.

New bank account, old deposit slips.

Old horchata, spoiled greens, rancid butter.

Your leftover eggnog from Christmas, 2010.

Your leftover Vienna Sausage, Hormel Chili.

Six frozen Pizza Kitchen Pizzas, pepperoni.

cracked 1989 baby cup kept just in case.

Men's brown sock, size 9, doesn't fit.

La Coste Alligator large windbreaker jacket.

Used copy, it's no place 4 a puritan.

Two dogs, one cat, unmarried life,

Rats chew ceiling lamp wires @ midnight

Open the cupboards at dawn, moths fly out.