crumbs

>> crumbs

I only eat whole cookies
not ones that are cracked
or in pieces, or the tiny
crumbs that cling to the
bottom of the cookie jar
or even those rattling sugary bits
mingling with grains and chips
that may have some dough
and chocolate melted inside
or bound to the clear plastic
clamshell container that they
arrive from the store in
but what's left now is only
destined for some landfill
or better, perhaps, some
cookie recycling center
deep in the desert
where maybe one day
they can be re-mixed
and become whole again!
besides, nobody really knows
what goes on out there...


-dp-
8-5-17