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Picnic
Virginia Salter

cousins
brown-bag lunches
straw hats
pedal pushers
tennies

traverse dirt clods
across vacant land
dine by trees
no thought to differences
parents felt

socio-hierarchy
unheard of
didn’t exist
played, laughed

caught bugs
in a jar
ran from bees
sat in dirt
kneeled on knees

oblivious
to world problems
ate nickel candy bars
shopped penny-candy stores
enjoyed giant ice-cream cones
for two-bits

sugar rotted teeth
not hearts
not veins
not organs

rib steaks
on the hoof
cut and wrapped
with a huge beef heart
liver ‘good for you’
all meat, ‘cept pork

those were the days
when ya only bought
what you could pay
and strawberry fields
were forever
just like the song

© July 28,  2000