me and bones

chicken meat
on chicken bones
on paper plate
at lunch break
of temporary work
i didn't forget
a handful of napkins
or the plastic
but the fork
and her serrated cousin
brainwash my hand to mouth

this mind
of manners
is less than before
i knew the names and faces
and their proper places
on either side

will clean hands save the napkins soul?!

to hell with that
let those absorbent bodies burn
with the rest of us



wb