Stone Soup
I’m in the kitchen
making stone soup
stirring the pot with a wooden ladle
that used to be a paddle
The doorbell rings
and I yell let yourself in
next thing I know there’s a white rabbit
handing me a couple of carrots
—I cut them into coins
& toss them into the pot
One by one my furry friends
drop by to donate to the soup
make themselves at home in the TV room
Nick at Nite replaying old Looney Tunes
white rabbit
yellow duck
brown bear
one wild & one domesticated dog
three kittens and two pussy cats
a mouse & marsupial & weasel
& all sorts of striped animals
salivating at the mouth
laughing at Tom & Jerry
When the supper bell rings
the TV turns dark
& the lights brighten
slurping sounds soon abounding
empty tummies quickly filling
january two thousand twenty-four
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