Still Life with Nabisco

I.

It was lying there
a breakfast square
cool glazed stripes
a sugared crust like
a scab from the severance
disconnected like the bouquet
of fetus filled balloons at the back door
rising
anger
pumped out flaccid
the tongue
like a tongue
or a breakfast square
portion of satisfaction
squared


II.

Pi
Three point one
forever a portion of a circle
like the plate
bisected by a dessert fork
on the Rhode Island Red chicken
plate with crumbs of quiche
made from the eggs and cow teet drippings
blended with pig belly and flour.
Camillia coughing flowers
bud on the linen covering the
table that was once the world.
A fur lined tea cup
incongruous to the scene
in front of the Quaker Oats box
Mise-en-abyme
I was holding you like forever
then the image went flat.


III.

Division
of household goods
that the chair bodes well
that the bench will sit another family
that the paper ending reinvents the wheel.