- Keith Banner
Banquet Fried Chicken
Updated: Aug 8, 2020
i don't know how to tell it
or show it
the intricacies of it being known
just a strange + stupid tendency
to want to
without reason
explain to you this situation here
i don't know
this urge
to let you know
about friday night
groceries
goddamn
what a magnificent
haul
back of some
ford truck we had
abandoned by dad
and yet
things need to get done
like friday night
groceries
such a form of heaven
unseen by bourgeois
eyes
(prior to food stamps
in this sad and silly life)
you pull together
what you got
and then go for it
when you are in
4th grade
this is heaven
in that aforementioned pickup truck
all that glorious
bounty in paperbags
flopping around
and then into your little
house
the treasures of
your night (and i really
mean this)
strawberry pop-tarts
banquet frozen fried chicken
cinnamon toast crunch
lord
have
mercy
such gold
dubloons such
beautiful newness
inside a place
of nothingness and shame
and you keep
carrying in
those bags of
groceries
thinking of hope
and plenty
thinking
of what this means
at least right
now
