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Breakfast

If you are what you eat, what are you if you’re starving?

Denise Shelton
2 min readMay 3, 2020
Photo by Rachel Park on Unsplash

It’s easy to eat breakfast

Put food into your mouth
It’s flapjacks in the north woods
and cornbread in the south
It’s kippers in the UK
Croissants in gay “Paree”
It’s Pop-Tarts almost anywhere
Wheatgrass in the OC

Wherever we awaken
Our noses sniff for bacon
And coffee perk, perk, perking, in the pot
For some, it’s poi or soy, plantain
Oatmeal with the works or plain
Sugar, lemon, honey, milk
Cocoa, tea, or soy-based Silk

It doesn’t matter who we are, the language that we speak
As soon as we awaken, it’s food our bodies seek

If we’ve been true and we’ve been good

If we’ve done all we could or should

Or if our lives are very sad

And so, we spend to not feel bad

None can refuse the urge to feed

It is a basic human need

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Denise Shelton
Denise Shelton

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