Southern Saturdays:
I remember-
Every Saturday night,
The old grey tiled kitchen with that coil stove started to smell.
That'd be where you'd find my gramma,
Breasts sagged in her old white nightgown.
Her mind boozed up,
Looking over that pot of goulash,
Trying to add more vegetables so the malnutrition didn't eat away at us.
By the time I was twenty,
The breasts were gone,
But the alcohol stayed in her breath.
It ate away at her,
more than my starving ever did,
So I left,
And didn't come back.
Even so,
Every once in awhile,
I find myself craving goulash,
And I think about returning a call or two,
But instead,
I'll start chopping tomatoes,
And add a few too many veggies.










