“Today What to Eat”

It is 11:17 in Mt. Pleasant a Wednesday

Three days after Monday, yes

It is 2008 and I’m sitting in class

Because I want my degree in 2009

Or 2010 or something like that

But I don’t know what I’ll eat tonight.

I write this poem on a snowy day

I don’t know what I’ll have for lunch

But I know it won’t be healthy

God, I’m getting fat these days.

Later on I’ll go to Jacob’s

Where Stefan (sitting on the couch, no doubt)

Will smile goofily and call me “girlfriend”

Then ask if for the next hour or so if I’m coming back

And Jacob and I will watch Farscape

Or Firefly of Naruto or Law and Order or

Maybe even Monk, but you know,

Whatever’s on or whatever we feel like watching.

After that I don’t know what we’ll do

Maybe eat some lunch or dinner from Taco Bell

Or Tim Hortons or something – anyway all the

Places we eat are on Saginaw road so it doesn’t

Matter what we eventually end up eating, though

I think I want something that once had a face

That sounds absolutely delicious but god

I’ve had way too much Burger King lately

And I need to cut down on the sweets

But maybe Jacob has some ice cream at his house.