Breadstuff

I have never liked bagels
even from Foxxy's in Las Vegas
where people thought
they were the best

1 still don't like bagels
It is something
in my Okie culture
maybe in my genes

Breadstuff I do love
Pass the cornbread
toss me a biscuit
make me a flour tortilla

But please
don't lay any bagels on me
the way Good Life
forced them on derelicts
and women folding clothes
in the White Foam Laundromat

Notes

McDaniel, Wilma. (2001) Borrowed Coats. Hanging Loose Press, Brooklyn, New York.
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