The Breakfast Nook

We’d pout. Our mother, brisking off,

urged Darlings! — your vitamins & minerals

dissolve inside with the milk & this-&-that

into instructions rejiggering more

vitamins, minerals, milk & this-&-that

to fizz up & turn into actual you,

or me, or anybody & etc.

Experiment: — you might let drop

capsules & milk into spit in one

another’s cups. Watch, wait;

think, add, stir. I’ll be right back.

One day it quits.

The whole business quits. Imagine that.