I Spilled My Corn Flakes: Poem
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I SPILLED MY CORN FLAKES
By
Justin W. Price
It’s October and I’m
getting ready for school with my brother.
I’m in footie pajamas
eating corn flakes with extra sugar.
My dad is outside and he opens
the door in a panic and leans
inside.
From the kitchen I can only see
his face, which looks
dour and stricken, and his hand
on the doorknob.
“You’d better come and say
goodbye to Emmy,” he says.
“She just got hit
by a car,”
he says.
Emmy is a mutt, some kind of ugly Aussie mix
and is still a puppy. She has
mustard yellow spots and dark black fur. We
got her outside the supermarket one day for my dad
for Father’s Day. She
travelled with us that summer,
riding on my lap from Portland to California
and back.
Every morning Emmy bounds
to the bus stop and greets
the waiting kids. (We
don’t take the bus. Our parents drive us to school.)
She’s visiting the bus stop when a woman—
Cold
Heartless
Cruel—
Crashes her car into Emmy sending
her flying. “Who’s dog is that?”
She says. “Find the owners,” She says
to horrified watching children as she
speeds off.
“No!” I push my
bowl of cornflakes sending them off the table
and onto the floor.
“No, you’re joking!”
I say.
I watch as the thick white liquid—
the ceramic shards
the orange flakes—
snake
across the floor and I know
he’s not.
all rights reserved. Copyright Justin W. Price October 2011. Copyright renewed by Justin W. Price and Sweatshoppe Publications Feb. 2013.
Thanks for Reading.
A FREELANCE WRITER, HONORS STUDENT AND GOVER PRIZE FINALIST, JUSTIN W. PRICE (AKA, PDXKARAOKEGUY)IS A POET, SHORT STORY, BIOGRAPHY AND HUMOR WRITER. HIS POETRY COLLECTION, DIGGING TO CHINA, WAS RELEASED FEBRUARY 2ND, 2013 BY SWEATSHOPPE PUBLICATIONS AND IS AVAILABLE ON AMAZON.COM, BARNES AND NOBLE AND THROUGH YOUR LOCAL BOOKSELLER.
HIS WORK WILL ALSO BE FEATURED IN BEST NEW FICTION (2014 EDITION), AND HAS APPEARED PREVIOUSLY IN THE RUSTY NAIL, EFICTION, THE CRISIS CHRONICLES, THE HELLROARING REVIEW, BURNINGWORD, THE WHISTLING FIRE, SEE SPOT RUN ANDTHE BELLWETHER REVIEW.
HE WORKS AS A FREELANCE WRITER, EDITOR, AND GHOSTWRITER, AND IS WORKING TOWARDS HIS PH.D. HE LIVES IN A SUBURB OF PORTLAND, OREGON WITH HIS WIFE, ANDREA, THEIR LABRADOODLE, BELLA, SCHNOODLE, SAUVEE AND BLACK MOOR GOLDFISH, HOWARD WOLOWITZ.
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