while supper slowly cooks in the kitchen
it’s thursday night & the cocktail making
is in full-force in the basement
men & women & children
participating in the assembly line
loosely following handed-down recipes
remarking how they’ve circulated
over the past century from country
to country & continent to continent
local & social media continue to remind
anyone who may be interested
that the charity run starts
eight o’clock sharp on saturday morning
and all those down below
agree they’ll easily be ready by then
september two thousand twenty-one
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