No one in my family

eats the cherry pie.

Why?

It is beautiful

there on the counter

in its white

ceramic pie pan,

all crimson and purple

encased in a glistening

brown crust.

 

People used to stand

in line for a piece of the pie,

any flavor, any color,

even mock apple pie.

Sometimes

lines for coffee and donuts

stretched around the block.

 

Then people stood in

line for cheese,

encased in white plastic

with the word

‘CHEESE’

stenciled in black ink.

 

The cheese was a

kind of yellow

unnatural for food,

manufactured,

mass produced the way

cars have been since

 

What do folks stand

in line for these days?

WIC Debit cards

Lottery tickets

Medical care

Security checkpoints

Jobs, always the jobs.

 

I don’t need to stand in

those kinds of lines

-hit the birth lottery,

my parents did it

so I don’t have to.

My kids will only

stand in express lines.

 

Sometimes I get in

a line just to find out

what is going on;

though nobody

can say why

the cherry pie

is so unpopular.

 

 

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