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A Glorious Reunion
Our faces press together like two halves of the same bagel
rejoined at long last
Nose to cheek to chin to brow
Every bump finding a place to nestle every contour
meeting its mirrored mate
Mouth to mouth to lips
forming that all-important hole
So soft so seamless so perfectly aligned that if Jesus Christ Himself
had been born the Son of a baker instead of a carpenter He still
could not have shaped it better
It is the sweet smell of dough it is the tart taste of onion
It is the red glow of burning coils
and fireworks
I believe our two halves must have been covered in cream cheese ‘cause I couldn’t pry myself away from you if I tried
I believe our two halves must have been covered in cream cheese ‘cause I couldn’t pry myself away from you if I tried
07
05 2009
Big Ol’ Bagel
i want a big ol’ bagel
at breakfast time
snag a big ol’ bagel
from the five and dime
grab a big ol’ bagel
onions and cream cheese
toast that big ol’ bagel
if you don’t mind please
bag my big ol’ bagel
takin’ it to go
’cause this big ol’ bagel
is the best i know
06
05 2009
Time
I always would long for more time
and for more cream cheese as well
until one day when I got both
and my life went straight to hell
I thought long days would be fruitful but they’re just lonely instead and I can’t taste any onion under all this extra spread
I thought long days would be fruitful but they’re just lonely instead and I can’t taste any onion under all this extra spread
05
05 2009
of passion
far behind the yellow tape
(where prying lenses can’t see)
a toppled dresser
a shattered mirror
latex gloves abound
pointing and
putting things in tiny plastic bags:
onion slivers
napkin fibers
someone says a knife is missing
but judging from
the pool of crumbs
the cream cheese splatter on the wall —
it certainly wasn’t missing
earlier
04
05 2009
voyage
rowing my trusty onion skin
across the bagel sea
serrated oars slice silently
through creamy swells
chop
chop
chop
though arms grow weary
i forge ahead
my love lies waiting
on yonder shore
and no crumby surf
no red hot coil of sun
no dark and bottomless whirl
amidst this vast unforgiving pool
shall keep me away
from her
03
05 2009
wedding day
bagel took this onion
onion took this bagel
and everyone their peace forever held
we danced the macarena and havad the nagila and counted ourselves blessed that they’d been jelled
we danced the macarena and havad the nagila and counted ourselves blessed that they’d been jelled
02
05 2009
Testament
In the beginning
There was toast
And we looked
And we saw that it was okay
Grain begat flour Seed begat onion These begat dough Which then formed a ring
We baked it We broke it We ate it In remembrance of then And in thanks of how far we’d come
Grain begat flour Seed begat onion These begat dough Which then formed a ring
We baked it We broke it We ate it In remembrance of then And in thanks of how far we’d come
01
05 2009
Dude with a neck Band-Aid
hey Dude
what’s shakin
and why is there a Band-Aid
on your neck?
odd place for a Band-Aid if you ask me seein as i’ve never needed one there before
did Somebody with a bread knife mistake your neck for a bagel or somethin?
i’m just glad that bagels don’t have Jugular Veins blood and onion don’t mix
odd place for a Band-Aid if you ask me seein as i’ve never needed one there before
did Somebody with a bread knife mistake your neck for a bagel or somethin?
i’m just glad that bagels don’t have Jugular Veins blood and onion don’t mix
